5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable · Needs Congress
Legislate parole standards returning immigration parole to a limited remedy
Printed page 146 5. Department of Homeland Security
“End parole abuse by legislating specific parole standards.”
Printed again later in the same chapter.
Printed page 149 5. Department of Homeland Security
“Parole reform. Congress should end the widespread abuse of parole in contravention of statute and return it to its origins as an extraordinary remedy for very limited purposes.”
What has happened
- Not started
No parole standards have been legislated. Congress's only enacted parole provision is a fee: section 100004 of Public Law 119-21 imposes an immigration parole fee, implemented by DHS on 2025-10-16. Charging for parole is not writing the standards that would end what the Quote calls parole abuse, and under the rule that progress is measured on this ask the fee leaves this Recommendation at not-started. The executive's own terminations of the CHNV and family-reunification parole processes are tracked at #326.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Also cited at ch. 5 p. 149. A Requires-Congress ask; the executive acted instead and Congress priced parole rather than defining it.
Searched, in records current to 2026-08-28: presidential documents, final rules, proposed rules and notices in the Federal Register from DHS and its components; bills and public laws in Congress, from congress.gov; White House presidential actions; and federal court dockets (CourtListener), including the bulk snapshot of 1.2 million dockets. The parole bills in the window — the Immigration Parole Reform Act of 2025 (S. 1589), Preventing the Abuse of Immigration Parole Act (H.R. 3725) — were referred to committee and went no further.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- immigration parole authority
- ID
- 337