Can the President do this? The article mentions that pardon power extends beyond criminal offense. However, it doesn't seem clear to me that pardon power covers

Can the President do this? The article mentions that pardon power extends beyond criminal offense. However, it doesn't seem clear to me that pardon power covers allowing undocumented immigrants to stay. If, say, I stole $3 million dollars from the US and got pardoned for the crime, they might still want the $3 million back. I suppose I don't understand the pardon power very well. Could the US illegally deport a citizen, pardon everyone involved, deny the citizen entry, and pardon everyone who conspires to keep the citizen out of the country every time they try to enter? It seems somehow like this, like this use of the pardon power circumvents something more fundamental. I think the article raises this point somewhere around: "As we have repeatedly said for years, only Congress can create legal status for undocumented individuals," a White House official told BuzzFeed.