Without these caps, family reunification would push overall immigration beyond levels that Congress considers appropriate.
His solution is to use the parole power to allow some applicants to jump the line and enter today.
Building on past administrations' abuses of the power, Mayorkas has used parole to welcome any number of immigrants he wants, from whatever countries he wants, at whatever times he wants.
If Congress had intended to give the secretary the power to wave through inadmissible migrants en masse, it would have spoken far more clearly.
Justice Barrett's concurrence in the student-loan case described a version of the "Major questions doctrine" that, if applied to the administration's use of parole, would clearly seem to invalidate it.
The House should continue to push legislation clarifying the limited nature of the parole power, and it should also initiate impeachment proceedings against Mayorkas for violating existing law.
If Congress fails to jealously guard its legislative prerogatives, there will be many more parole programs inviting many more inadmissible migrants in the near future.
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