Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to review the parole status of immigrants admitted under a dramatic expansion of humanitarian parole by the Biden administration, opening the door to their rapid removal from the country.
In an internal memo signed Thursday, and obtained by Fox News Digital, Benjamin Hoffman, the Labor Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, noted his moves this week to eliminate border staggering, allowing the rapid removal of recently distributed immigrants if they do not claim status or fail to meet a standard. first. Immigrants in the United States can now use energy anywhere in the United States for less than two years.
With those expanded powers, any immigrant who DHS knows who could be placed for expedited removal, but has not, must have their case reviewed and “consider, in the exercise of your enforcement authority, whether to apply expedited removal,” the new memo says. . The memo was first reported The New York Times.
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President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump look on as they meet with President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Inauguration Day of Donald Trump's second term in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
“This may include steps to terminate any ongoing removal proceedings and/or any active parole case,” she says.
It also says that for any immigrant who has been granted parole under a policy previously suspended, modified or terminated Trump administrationofficers can decide whether they should be placed in removal proceedings and “review the alien's parole status to determine, in the exercise of your enforcement authority, whether parole remains appropriate in light of any legal or factual situation.”
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The memorandum also notes that parole is “an affirmative exercise of enforcement discretion to which no alien is entitled and parole may not be considered 'recognition of the alien.'”
This means that immigrants who have been granted parole at ports of entry after making an appointment via the CBP One app, or who have obtained travel authorization to be released under the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole processes, could be eligible for removal. The administration also launched parole programs for citizens of Ukraine and Afghanistan.
About 1.5 million immigrants were allowed under CBP One and CHNV, and both parole channels were closed by the President Donald Trump On his first day in the office. The Biden administration said the expanded “legal pathways” were part of an effort to limit illegal crossings, but Republicans accused the administration of abusing limited parole authority and letting in migrants who should not enter legally.
On January 23, 2025, Ice San Francisco arrested Ariel Rene Romsetino, a citizen of Mexico unlawfully present in the United States. (ice)
Hoffman's memo follows one from earlier this week in which he requested a review of parole use. The memo notes that the statute requires the use of authority on a “case-by-case basis,” something Republican critics claim the administration has contributed to. He asserts that parole is a “limited use power, which applies only in a very narrow set of circumstances.”
It also claims that “executive goods have been repeatedly exposed over the past few decades in ways that are grossly inconsistent with the platform.”
“Importantly, the Parole Act does not permit categorical parole programs that make aliens eligible based on some set of widely applicable criteria,” she says.
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The note directs heads (ice) Customs and Border Protection will compile and review a list of instructions, policies and procedures related to parole and formulate a plan to phase out any that are not consistent with the statute.
The latest memo comes amid a flurry of moves by the administration on immigration and illegal immigration, including moves to send the military to the border, end refugee resettlement, build the border wall and launch a massive deportation operation.
Ice on Thursday More than 530 illegal immigrants were arrested in another day of raids across U.S. agents focused on public safety threats, but officials said no one is off the table if they are in the country illegally.
