Why Is 'Parole in Place' in the NDAA?
Sympathetic cases legislate bad law
By Andrew R. Arthur on December 26, 2019
Revised December 26, 2019.
Deep in the bowels of the 3,444 pages of S. 1790, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA 2020) is a curiously placed and worded immigration provision. Somehow, a Kamala Harris talking point has become law, introduced before our very eyes through its initial application to a very select and sympathetic group of aliens. You can expect it to get much, much bigger and blossom into a full-grown amnesty at some point during a future administration, likely sooner rather than later.
President Trump signed that bill, now Pub. L. 116-92, on December 20, 2019. Much of the focus of that bill has been on the size of the appropriation ($738 billion), the fact that it contains a much-deserved 3.1 percent pay increase for members of the military, a provision that designates paid family leave for all federal workers, and the fact that it creates a new branch of the armed forces, the "Space Force". It takes a little bit of digging (or wading) through that bill to get to Division A, Title XVII, Subtitle B, section 1758 on p. 667 of NDAA 2020, which is captioned "Parole in Place for members of the Armed Forces and certain military dependents".
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