Source: CBS News
The Biden administration has welcomed over half a million migrants under programs designed to reduce illegal border entries or offer a safe haven
to refugees, using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history, unpublished government data obtained
by CBS News show.
In less than two years, the administration has allowed at least 541,000 migrants to enter the U.S. through the immigration parole authority,
which gives federal officials the power to authorize the entry of
foreigners who lack visas, according to internal government statistics,
court records and public reports.
The unprecedented use of the parole authority has allowed officials to
divert migration away from the southern border by offering would-be
migrants a legal and safe alternative to journeying to the U.S. with the
help of smugglers and entering the country unlawfully. It has also given
the administration a faster way to resettle refugees as it attempts to
rebuild a resettlement system gutted by drastic Trump-era cuts.
Officials have invoked the parole authority to welcome roughly 168,400
Latin American and Caribbean migrants with U.S. sponsors; 141,200
Ukrainian refugees sponsored by Americans; 133,000 asylum-seekers who
waited for an appointment in Mexico; 77,000 Afghan evacuees; and 22,000 Ukrainians processed at the U.S. southern border, the data show.
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