It does not change the status of someone that is illegally in the country. A pardon pertains to criminal law. The changing of status is under naturalization and immigration. and that power is strictly reserved to this House and the body down the hall. the U.S. Senate. We have the power under article I. section 8. to make the law on those things. the President does not. And there is no provision that allows him to pardon someone from the requirements of the naturalization or immigration laws. Now. something else caught my attention. It is down in the miscellaneous provisions of section 1324. because I am always looking: Okay. does the President have a loophole here?
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