S.1757 amended parole authority to prohibit use for generalized categories of aliens and restrict it to case-by-case circumstances.
Support limiting immigration parole authority to case-by-case urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit and barring broad categorical parole grants.
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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.
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.
Congress.gov shows S.2824's latest action as hearings held on January 11, 2024, and the tracker status as Introduced, not enacted.
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.
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 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.
Assessments
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.