Biden's humanitarian parole for Cubans, Venezuelans is at risk in negotiations with GOP

[Judi Lynn]

(Written with interests of the US right in the forefront, as always in US corporate articles. . . . )

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Associated Press
Published January 19, 2024 at 10:53 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is closing in on a Senate deal on border security and Ukraine funding as the White House tries to resolve one of the last major sticking points: whether to preserve the president's authority to allow migrants into the U.S. for special cases during emergencies or global unrest.

Republicans deride the authority, known as humanitarian parole, as a Biden administration end run around Congress that allows into the U.S. large numbers of migrants who further tax an already overextended immigration system.

But that power to allow in certain immigrants at certain times is not new or particularly novel. It has been used across political lines for decades to admit people from Hungary in the 1950s, Vietnam in the 1970s and Iraqi Kurds over the 1990s. For recipients, it can be a lifeline.

"The parole gave me this opportunity, it has made me realize my dreams, my life," said Emilia Ferrer Triay, who came from Cuba in 1980 as a young girl. "Everything changed from the first day I arrived, I saw that I had a future ... that there were no restrictions."

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