DHS creates path to citizenship for Dreamers: report

Article author: 
Stephen Dinan
Article publisher: 
The Washington Times
Article date: 
13 February 2015
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

The Obama administration quietly told Congress this week that its deportation amnesty programs will, in fact, include a pathway to citizenship, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who said that breaks a promise President Obama made to the country when he announced the program.

“Under the expanded program, DACA requestors will now be able to file applications for advance parole at the same time they file their DACA application,” Mr. Goodlatte wrote. “Such a process encourages advance parole applications and thus encourages DACA to be used as a path to U.S. citizenship” ...

 Mr. Obama announced the program for Dreamers in June 2012, and began taking applications in August of that year ...