MARCH 10, 2025

The Refugee Program was designed to address the impermanency of parole. Here’s how The GRACE Act could address it today.

History repeats itself.

And it is now—as humanitarian parole programs once again fail to offer long-term security to those in search of refuge.

Parole, like the Refugee Program, depends on the President. Parolees, unlike refugees, are at risk of having their status revoked, and ultimately, deportation when the Presidency changes hands. The vulnerability of parole is visible, clearly, in Florida—a state whose history is braided with parole.

But America has been here before. In the 1970s, Congress saw the vulnerabilities that resulted from America’s repeated use of humanitarian parole programs. They saw the costs of parole’s impermanence, its inequity, and its lack of integration services.

That’s why Congress created The Refugee Program. It was designed to remediate the unreliability of parole and offer protections that refugees—and America—could rely on.

That’s why we need The GRACE Act: to fortify the Refugee Program—and offer true, lasting refuge to parolees today.

Read the full article here.