"This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It is not a permanent fix," Obama said at a White House briefing. Calling it a way to help students dubbed as “Dreamers,” the president described it as a stopgap measure “giving a degree of relief and hope to talented driven, patriotic young people.”
Under the policy, young people brought to the U.S. before age 16 could receive a two-year deferral from deportation with the possibility to renew that status.
