Months ago, Biden loosened his administration’s expansive Catch and Release network to include forms of so-called humanitarian parole, meant to be used on a case-by-case basis.
Mass migration advocates, as well as elected Democrats, have suggested that Biden ought to continue expanding such “legal pathways” for border crossers and illegal aliens.
“Parole is an important mechanism, but it has to be viewed as a temporary measure. And that puts the pressure back on, first, Congress,” the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s (AILA) Greg Chen told Axios.
“We believe that your administration can and must continue to expand legal pathways for migrants and refugees into the United States,” a number of House and Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to Biden last month.
According to data published in Axios, some 700,000 migrants have been rewarded parole by the Biden administration in 2021 and 2022.
