House Minority Leader has something she’d like to say: more than eight hours worth of things, to be specific.
Pelosi took to the House floor beginning at 10:04 am on Wednesday to advocate on behalf of young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. …
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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson in support of DACA
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson to act on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Since 2012, 800,000 undocumented immigrants have received DACA status. “Every day that Congress doesn’t act more DACA recipients are losing their status,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post this morning. If President Donald Trump has his way, DACA… Read More
Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to fund college scholarships for Dreamers
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in the form of a scholarship grant to help 1,000 undocumented immigrant high school graduates with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status attend college. The Bezos gra…
View More Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to fund college scholarships for DreamersTech executives join more than 100 business leaders calling on Congress to move quickly on DACA
Many of tech’s most prominent executives have joined more than 100 American business leaders in signing an open letter asking Congress to take action on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program before it expires on March 5. Read More
Zuckerberg-backed FWD.us: Congress failed Dreamers
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Congress passed a stopgap measure on Thursday that will prevent a government shutdown, at least until January. But FWD.us, the organization founded by such tech titans as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, isn’t happy about one thing the spending bill is missing: protection for Dreamers.
Democratic leaders wanted an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as young children — in the bill. That didn’t happen, but the legislation passed anyway, funding the government until Jan. 19. Read more…
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View More Zuckerberg-backed FWD.us: Congress failed Dreamers#MeToo is beating out Trump in TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ reader poll
If you thought the results for People’s Sexiest Man Alive were contentious, buckle your seat belts for the preliminary results of TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ reader poll, which includes the good, the bad, and the Trump.
On Friday, TIME released their…