According to report from the Federation on American Immigration Reform (FAIR), President Joe Biden’s administration paroled more illegal aliens into the United States during the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2023 than it accepted legal immigrants through visa programs.
Parole for illegal aliens entails a government acknowledgement that a person is present in the country illegally, but that they have permission to stay for various reasons.
FAIR explains in its report:
Parole is an authority set forth in statute that allows otherwise inadmissible aliens to enter the United States for a limited time and purpose. Section 212(d)(5)(A) of the [Immigration and Nationality Act] provides that the Secretary of Homeland Security may ‘parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit any alien applying for admission to the United States’ (emphasis added). An alien may be granted parole, at the discretion of the Department of Homeland Security, either at a port of entry or while in their home country, granting them permission to be inspected and enter the U.S.
But FAIR says the parole system is being used for permanent relocation, and some illegal aliens will never have a court hearing to decide whether they should be allowed to stay in the United States. Further, parole requires that another person vouch for the illegal alien, but that person can also be an illegal alien.
FAIR, citing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says that in the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2023, 876,577 paroles were granted to illegal aliens.
During that same timeframe, 545,419 people were granted green cards through the legal immigration system.
According to the report:
The parole authority is a blank check for open-borders administrations to let in millions of illegal aliens every year, working as a quasi-amnesty program with no limits. The Biden administration has engineered the largest abuse of parole authority in the history of immigration to the United States. The abuse of parole has created chaos both at our borders and in cities like New York that are straining under the financial and social stress that the unlawful mass parole of aliens creates. These unlawful actions undermine the integrity of America’s borders and dilute our national sovereignty.
Notably, the Biden administration has also created new parole pathways for Ukrainian and Afghani nationals who are fleeing wars in the respective nations.
“The Biden administration has taken a program that, by statute, is supposed to be temporary and exercised on a case-by-case basis and created what they term as a ‘new legal pathway’ for people to enter and remain permanently in the country,” said Dan Stein, president of FAIR.
“To be clear, there is nothing legal about these pathways. Under our Constitution, only Congress has the authority to create legal avenues for people to enter the United States. Nevertheless, the administration has usurped that authority to implement what amounts to a shadow immigration system that now exceeds in scope the formal legal immigration process.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
Photo “U.S. Border Patrol Agents Conduct Intake of Illegal Border Crossers at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
