Biden DHS Released Nearly 90 Percent of Border Migrants
Through Parole Program
By AG News Staff/ May 27, 2026
A new report from the Government Accountability Office found
that the Biden administration released nearly 90 percent of migrants
encountered at the southern border through parole authority at the
height of its catch-and-release policies.
The report details how the Department of Homeland Security
under former President Joe Biden and then-DHS Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas dramatically expanded the use of “humanitarian parole”
between early 2021 and Jan. 20, 2025.
According to the GAO, parole authority had previously been
used sparingly by presidential administrations before Biden took
office.
“Specifically, our analysis showed that OFO and Border Patrol
granted relatively few paroles during fiscal years 2019 and 2020,”
the report stated.
The watchdog agency found that during 2019 and 2020, parole
was granted in roughly 3 percent to 28 percent of southwest border
encounters. That changed sharply beginning in the summer of 2021.
“The number of paroles granted increased beginning in the
summer of 2021 and peaked in December 2022, when 89 percent of
encounters resulted in parole,” the report stated. “Paroles
granted declined substantially after December 2022 and again after
January 2025.”
The report also raised concerns that the Biden administra-
tion’s mass parole program overwhelmed federal immigration
enforcement systems and left authorities struggling to track
migrants released into the country.
“… without readily accessible information about noncitizens’
parole status, ICE does not have the information it needs to
identify and monitor these noncitizens, or to take enforcement
action, as appropriate,” the report stated.
Conservatives have argued throughout Biden’s presidency that
the administration effectively dismantled immigration enforcement
at the southern border by relying heavily on parole authority to
release migrants into the interior of the United States.
Some architects of those immigration policies are now pushing
Democrats to restore similar programs if the party regains power
in Washington.
Praying that Democrats NEVER regain power.
God please heal our land and rid us of the evil.
Conservatively,
John
