The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 17 confirmed that the alleged leader of a plot to carry out a terrorist attack against the White House’s UFC event over the past weekend is an illegal immigrant who was allowed to stay in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In a statement, the DHS confirmed that Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, a Mexican illegal immigrant, entered the United States on a B-2 visitor visa and failed to depart the country after it expired in 2001.
In 2014, according to the department, he was granted DACA status, an Obama administration policy that allowed some people who were illegally present in the United States to receive deferred action from deportation procedures and be eligible to work….