Support limiting immigration parole authority to case-by-case urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit and barring broad categorical parole grants.

John Cornyn · Texas · Republican

policy impact 0.77 specificity 0.86 extraction confidence 86%

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Evidence

Congress.gov lists Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX] as a cosponsor of S.2824, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, with a cosponsorship date of September 18, 2023.

Cornyn took concrete legislative action supporting a bill that included immigration parole reform.

delivered same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - S.2824 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Secure the Border Act of 2023
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Title VII, Immigration Parole Reform, would amend INA section 212(d)(5) so parole is granted on a case-by-case basis and not by eligibility criteria describing an entire class of potential parole recipients, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.

The bill Cornyn cosponsored matches the commitment's core terms: case-by-case parole, urgent humanitarian reasons/significant public benefit, and no broad categorical class-based parole.

delivered same_term A for effort

Text - S.2824 - Secure the Border Act of 2023
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Congress.gov shows S.2824's latest action as hearings held on January 11, 2024, and the tracker status as Introduced, not enacted.

Cornyn supported the statutory reform, but the 118th Congress bill did not become law, so statutory delivery remained incomplete through that vehicle.

partial same_term A for effort

All Info - S.2824 - Secure the Border Act of 2023
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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Executive Order 14165 directed DHS to cease using CBP One to parole or facilitate entry of inadmissible aliens and to terminate categorical parole programs contrary to administration policy, including CHNV.

The executive branch acted to end broad categorical parole programs, including the major CHNV program, consistent with the commitment's policy outcome.

delivered same_term

Securing Our Borders
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Executive Order 14159 directed agencies to ensure INA parole authority is exercised only case by case and only when an individual alien demonstrates urgent humanitarian reasons or a significant public benefit from that person's continued presence.

The order implemented the same case-by-case, urgent-humanitarian-or-significant-public-benefit limitation at the executive-policy level.

delivered same_term

Protecting The American People Against Invasion
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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The Supreme Court docket states the stay application was granted on May 30, 2025, staying the District of Massachusetts order while the First Circuit appeal and any certiorari petition proceed.

The Supreme Court allowed the administration's CHNV parole revocation effort to proceed during litigation, reducing a key legal block to ending a broad categorical parole program, though the stay was not a final merits ruling.

partial same_term

Docket for 24A1079 - Noem v. Doe
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Assessments

delivered same_term

Cornyn materially supported the promised policy by cosponsoring S.2824, whose parole-reform text matched the claim by requiring case-by-case parole for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit and barring class-based eligibility. That bill did not become law, but during Cornyn's same Senate term the executive branch issued orders directing parole to be used only case by case and ending categorical parole programs such as CHNV/CBP One parole. Because the promised policy outcome was implemented at the federal executive-policy level while Cornyn remained in office, with Cornyn having taken concrete legislative action in support, this counts as delivered in the same term rather than merely an unsuccessful effort.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 89%