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Yet he doesn't think so – despite the fact that in June 2012, President Obama signed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) memorandum into law. It offers legal status to those who have been brought illegally to the US as children, like Santamaría. He would have qualified, meaning he could have become a naturalized US citizen if he'd remained in San Diego.
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Whoever wrote this article is either hugely misinformed, or they're assuming CIR will pass, which means he could have technically become a US citizen by staying...
I'm guessing it's the former.
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