Secretary Ben Carson denied in congressional testimony earlier this year that the Department of Housing and Urban Development was denying federally backed loans to certain immigrants. The Trump administration has admitted for the first time that young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children are being turned down for federally backed housing loans, after Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson denied it in congressional testimony earlier this year.

Beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are ineligible for mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, a top Housing and Urban Development official said, ending months of confusion about the policy for immigrants who were brought here as children.