A group of Democrats says the Trump administration enacted a new policy that bars DACA recipients from receiving federally-backed mortgage loans and then hid the policy from Congress.
The 13 Senate and 32 House Democrats made the claims in a letter sent Monday to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis, in which they requested an investigation into the matter.
“ ‘We are concerned that HUD imposed a new, nonpublic, and legally erroneous policy prohibiting the issuance of FHA-insurance loans to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and knowingly misrepresented to Congress the implementation and enforcement of this new policy.’ ” Last year, HUD initially told lenders that they were not denying mortgages to Dreamers, HousingWire reported, a claim HUD Secretary Ben Carson and other HUD officials repeated during congressional hearings and in meetings with members of Congress.
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