Limits parole to narrow individual humanitarian and law-enforcement cases instead of broad classes or programs, reducing the number of aliens who can be paroled into the United States.
the Secretary of Homeland Security, in the discretion of the Secretary, may temporarily parole into the United States any alien applying for admission to the United States who is not present in the United States, under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, on a case-by-case basis, and not according to eligibility criteria describing an entire class of potential parole recipients, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.
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Stage: Committee · step 2 of 6
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2025-05-05: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill substantially narrows the parole authority in 8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5) by restricting it to true case-by-case urgent humanitarian or significant public-benefit situations with enumerated narrow criteria, prohibiting class-based or categorical parole programs, limiting duration and employment authorization, and adding reporting and private-enforcement mechanisms. These changes reduce overall use of parole to admit aliens, which restricts immigration enforcement by limiting an avenue for entry outside normal processes; the reporting and cause-of-action provisions are neutral or expand tools,