{"id":124,"date":"2026-05-27T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:39:54","slug":"biden-dhs-released-nearly-90-percent-of-border-migrants-through-parole-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Biden DHS Released Nearly 90 Percent of Border Migrants Through Parole Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that the Biden administration released nearly 90 percent of migrants encountered at the southern border through parole authority at the height of its catch-and-release policies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=122\">Operation Varsity Blues: When the System Decides You\u2019re Guilty First<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report details how the Department of Homeland Security under former President Joe Biden and then-DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas dramatically expanded the use of \u201chumanitarian parole\u201d between early 2021 and Jan. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GAO, parole authority had previously been used sparingly by presidential administrations before Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, our analysis showed that OFO and Border Patrol granted relatively few paroles during fiscal years 2019 and 2020,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog agency found that during 2019 and 2020, parole was granted in roughly 3 percent to 28 percent of southwest border encounters. That changed sharply beginning in the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of paroles granted increased beginning in the summer of 2021 and peaked in December 2022, when 89 percent of encounters resulted in parole,\u201d the report stated. \u201cParoles granted declined substantially after December 2022 and again after January 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=120\">Government Overreach Destroys Families<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report also raised concerns that the Biden administration\u2019s mass parole program overwhelmed federal immigration enforcement systems and left authorities struggling to track migrants released into the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 without readily accessible information about noncitizens\u2019 parole status, ICE does not have the information it needs to identify and monitor these noncitizens, or to take enforcement action, as appropriate,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have argued throughout Biden\u2019s presidency that the administration effectively dismantled immigration enforcement at the southern border by relying heavily on parole authority to release migrants into the interior of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Some architects of those immigration policies are now pushing Democrats to restore similar programs if the party regains power in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=118\">Nuances on China in USIC\u2019s 2026 Threat Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Government Accountability Office found that the Biden administration released nearly 90 percent of migrants encountered at the southern\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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