The Biden administration’s parole programs are successfully reducing both illegal immigration and total immigration into the U.S., and they are shifting the composition of immigrants so that they are more self-sufficient and reliant on their existing social networks, rather than dependent on...
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The section of the U.S. code that contains all of the country’s immigration laws, including restraints on who is admissible to the country or eligible for a visa and the nation’s asylum laws, is called Title 8. The share of U.S. border crossings processed under Title 8 with migrants from these five countries—Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ukraine—peaked at nearly 49% of all border encounters (
Figure 1) just before Uniting for Ukraine, the first of the Biden administration’s parole programs, began to admit people in April 2022, up from less than 5% before the Covid-19 pandemic.