Preventing the Abuse of Immigration Parole Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3725 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3725 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the process for granting parole, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2025 Mr. McDowell (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Moore of West Virginia, Ms. Boebert, Mr. Norman, Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona, Mr. Grothman, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Goldman of Texas, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Wied, Mr. Moore of North Carolina, Mr. McGuire, and Mr. Yakym) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the process for granting parole, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing the Abuse of Immigration Parole Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The use of parole under immigration law, under the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, is intended and should only be granted on a ``case-by-case'' basis, strictly evaluating each individual applicant's urgent humanitarian need or his or her significant public benefit. (2) Under the Biden Administration, Secretary Mayorkas abused this program, paroling an estimated total of 2.8 million aliens into the United States, bypassing lawful visa and refugee processes. (3) In its 2021 ruling in Texas v. Biden, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that Secretary Mayorkas' parole of inadmissible aliens ``en masse is the opposite of case-by-case decision making'' and these actions led to ``misenforcement, suspension of the Immigration Nationality Act, or b