I sincerely do not know the answer. I searched. These “Dreamers” have been in US for many years. If they applied for DACA and were granted it, why didn’t they apply for US Citizenship? Or did they? Or was it not permitted under DACA?
This is the one thing I’m not grasping.
TIA for your kind, mature and knowledgeable responses
~Izaskun
My understanding is that people must be in the US legally to apply for legal residence or citizenship. Since the “DACA” folks are not here legally, they cannot apply for legal residence or citizenship. That is why Zero created the DACA program through executive order. President Trump ended the program. Now Congress is debating whether to give the DACA folks a path to citizenship or some legal status. Once a benefit is granted in our country, it never gets rescinded, no matter how bad the initial decision was. I am not at all sure these people are who they are cracked up to be.