Biden’s Immigration Action Poised to Weather Legal Challenges

President Joe Biden‘s latest use of executive parole power to offer relief to some 500,000 immigrants, the broadest use of that authority to date for immigrants in the US, stands on firmer legal ground than other programs for long-term residents, attorneys say.

The rollout of the “Parole in Place” plan for undocumented spouses of US citizens, announced June 18, is almost certain to draw legal challenges from Republican opponents.

Conservatives already have blasted the program as “amnesty” and executive overreach, and Republican states have sued to block nearly every new executive program offering relief to immigrants since the Obama ...