Bezos donated enough to fund the college education of 1,000 Dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the US as children. The $33 million donation came during a time when President Trump attempted to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — known as DACA — under which these children were protected from deportation and allowed to work legally in the US.
Bezos said the donation was a nod to his father, Miguel Bezos (pictured above), who fled to the US from Cuba when he was 15. He later went on to attend college and work as an engineer at Exxon.