Experts: Obama Admin. Using 'Emergency' Provision to Expand Immigration
humanitarian parole
Published:
Tue, Aug 30th 2016 @ 2:42 pm EDT
Last week Pres. Obama used a provision called “humanitarian parole” to give temporary status to immigrant entrepreneurs, historically this parole has only been used during a time of emergency.
Humanitarian parole allows the DHS secretary to admit foreigners into the U.S. for a “temporary period of time due to a compelling emergency,” such as to allow someone to undergo a life-saving medical treatment they can’t receive in the homeland or to testify in a court case.
“It was intended as a very, very limited power the president could exercise … It was intended to be used very rarely,” said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Like a lot of powers, this president extended it as far as it could possibly be extended.”
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