Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient Javier Quiroz Castro greets President Biden at the White House on June 18. Theodore B. Olson, an attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, was solicitor general of the United States under President George W. Bush.of U.S. citizens who have long-standing ties to the United States to apply for immigration parole is a laudable step — and a lawful one. It deserves our full support.
Parole is a discretionary power exercised by immigration officers to permit noncitizens toremain in the United States temporarily, under government supervision, while they pursue more permanent immigration status.would make that relief available on a case-by-case basis to noncitizens who, as of June 17, are legally married to a U.S. citizen, have been present in the United States for at least 10 years and pass a criminal-background check.
I have been engaged with our nation’s immigration policy for more than 40 years — as head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Ronald Reagan, as solicitor general under President George W. Bush and as a private attorney who successfully defended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy against attempts to rescind it.