....Internal federal statistics as of Jan. 18 show the Biden administration has invoked the parole authority to admit
422,000 migrants who used a government phone app known as CBP One to schedule a time to be processed at an official U.S.-Mexico border crossing. These migrants are also placed in deportation proceedings in immigration court, though those cases typically take years to be decided due to a massive backlog of claims.
Officials have also used parole to welcome
340,000 Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans at airports under a Biden administration program that allows U.S.-based individuals to sponsor them, according to the internal data.
Under another sponsorship program called Uniting for Ukraine, the U.S. has allowed more than
176,000 Ukrainians to enter the country under the parole authority, according to federal statistics. Before that program was created in April 2022, DHS
data show, the Biden administration paroled more than 20,000 Ukrainians at the southern border after they flew to Mexico during the early days of the Russian invasion.
Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, the Biden administration cited the parole authority to resettle
more than 77,000 Afghans, most of whom were airlifted from Kabul.
The Biden administration has used parole in other contexts, including to release hundreds of thousands of migrants who crossed the southern border illegally in 2021 and 2022 under a policy that was struck down in federal court. But those migrants only received 60-day grants of parole, which was used to release them from custody so they could attend check-in appointments in different U.S. cities....
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