Last week, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker overruled the the Biden Administration’s “parole in place” program. It would have given legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens married to U.S. citizens.
Baker blocked “parole in place” shortly after the administration began the program in August in order to consider the lawsuit brought against it by the attorneys general of fourteen states. The judge agreed with the contention of the states that the program was unlawful and exceeded the administration’s executive authority.
Parole authority under the law, the attorneys general pointed out, permits the granting on legal status only on a “case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” The administration has used its expanded version of parole to grant legal status to large numbers of alleged asylum seekers with little case-by-case attention.
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