Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page Wednesday afternoon that he and his wife Priscilla Chan made a $5 million donation to The Dream.US to help undocumented immigrant youth in the U.S. get a college education.

The Dream.US is a scholarship fund, founded in 2013, dedicated to providing immigrant youth who, without financial aid, can not afford to go to college in the U.S. and in doing so will provide them with the professional skills to pursue careers.

When President Obama created DACA, a program that grants deferred action for certain undocumented young people who came to the U.S. as children, this gave many young immigrants the opportunity to legally work in the United States.

With thousands of youth struggling to find a way to receive a post-high school education here in the United States, Zuckerberg states it's necessary to provide them with the tools they need to help them move forward and make America the progressive place is strives to be.

"America was founded as a nation of immigrants," said Zuckerberg. "We ought to welcome smart and hardworking young people from every nation, and to help everyone in our society achieve their full potential. If we help more young immigrants climb the ladder to new opportunities, then our country will make greater progress."

The donation will help provide scholarships for youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, where The Dream.US has been recently increasing its efforts, and assist in providing over 400 young immigrants with college degrees over the next five years.

According to NBC News, the young CEO has been a very vocal supporter of immigration reform and even founded FWD.us in 2013, a lobbying group aimed at supporting efforts to give citizenship to the millions of immigrants currently living and working in the United States.