Did Obama allow a ‘back door’ to citizenship through DACA?

“Now, let’s be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship.”
— President Barack Obama, announcing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, June 15, 2012

“Data Indicate Unauthorized Immigrants Exploited Loophole to Gain Legal Status, Pathway to Citizenship”
— headline of news release by Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), Sept. 1, 2017

One criticism of DACA, which the Trump administration has said it will rescind unless Congress acts to make it permanent, is that it has allowed unauthorized immigrants to exploit the system and gain U.S. citizenship, despite former President Barack Obama’s statement that it would not do so.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/07/did-obama-allow-a-backdoor-to-citizenship-through-daca/?utm_term=.62365ecd7055

Contact Darren Heyman, Las Vegas Immigration Attorney, for more information.