Trump DHS makes key move against migrants allowed in via controversial Biden parole programs
The Thursday memo notes that parole is a 'positive exercise of enforcement discretion to which no alien is entitled'
Adam Shaw By Adam Shaw Fox News
Published January 24, 2025 10:12am EST
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to review the parole status of migrants who were brought in under a dramatic expansion of humanitarian parole by the Biden administration, opening the door for their quick removal from the country.
In an internal memo signed Thursday, and obtained by Fox News Digital, acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman noted moves he made this week to take limits off expedited removal, which allows for the rapid removal of recently-arrived migrants if they do not claim asylum or fail to meet an initial standard. The power can now be used anywhere in the U.S. for migrants in the U.S. for less than two years.
The new memo says that with those expanded powers, any immigrant whom DHS knows who could be put on expedited removal, but has not, should have their case reviewed and "consider, in exercising your enforcement discretion, whether to apply expedited removal." The memo was first reported by The New York Times.
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