San Antonio businessman and prominent Democratic Party fundraiser Henry Munoz' group 'TheDream.US,' helped put together the $33 million donations by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos which will pay for college scholarships for 1,000 DACA recipients, illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. with their parents and whose futures are now uncertain, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"The state of the Dreamers is such that they have no access to any sort of funding, no grants, and very infrequently can they get this kind of scholarship," Munoz said.
Munoz and Don Graham founded TheDreamUS, which bills itself as the nation's largest college access and success program for undocumented immigrant youth.'
Munoz is a principal with the San Antonio architecture and design firm Munoz & Company, and he is a prominent leader in local affairs, as well as serving in top positions in the National Democratic Party.
"I think that at this moment in our country's history, this also says to people, it is time for us to be unified, and I appreciate that," he said.
Bezos, who is the richest person in the world and possibly the wealthiest private citizen of all time, is the stepson of an immigrant from Cuba who came to the U.S. with no money and unable to speak English.
"His story is a story about the American dream, about somebody who is connected to the great tradition of immigration in this country, who is connected to the Latino Community," Munoz said.
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