I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3725 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the process for 
granting parole, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 4, 2025 
Mr. MCDOWELL (for himself, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. MOORE of West Vir-
ginia, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. HAMADEH of Arizona, Mr. 
GROTHMAN, Ms. FOXX, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. GOLD-
MAN of Texas, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. WIED, Mr. MOORE of North Carolina, 
Mr. MCGUIRE, and Mr. YAKYM) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform 
the process for granting parole, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing the Abuse 
of Immigration Parole Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The use of parole under immigration law, 
under the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, is intended and should only be granted on 
a ‘‘case-by-case’’ basis, strictly evaluating each indi-
vidual applicant’s urgent humanitarian need or his 
or her significant public benefit. 
(2) Under the Biden Administration, Secretary 
Mayorkas abused this program, paroling an esti-
mated total of 2.8 million aliens into the United 
States, bypassing lawful visa and refugee processes. 
(3) In its 2021 ruling in Texas v. Biden, the 
United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote 
that Secretary Mayorkas’ parole of inadmissible 
aliens ‘‘en masse is the opposite of case-by-case deci-
sion 
making’’ 
and 
these 
actions 
led 
to 
‘‘misenforcement, suspension of the Immigration 
Nationality Act, or both’’. 
(4) The systemic abuse of parole for aliens out-
side the United States is a threat to national secu-
rity and future abuse should be prevented. 
SEC. 3. IMMIGRATION PAROLE REFORM. 
Section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(5)(A) The Secretary of Homeland Security may, 
except as provided in subparagraph (B) or in section 
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214(f), in his discretion parole into the United States tem-
porarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only 
on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons 
or significant public benefit any alien applying for admis-
sion to the United States, but such parole of such alien 
shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien and 
when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of 
the Secretary of Homeland Security, have been served the 
alien shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody 
from which he was paroled and thereafter his case shall 
continue to be dealt with in the same manner as that of 
any other applicant for admission to the United States. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary of Homeland Security may not 
parole into the United States any alien who is a national 
of a country of concern (as defined in section 1(m) of the 
State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 
U.S.C. 2651a(m))) unless the Secretary of State issues 
a waiver with respect to the alien. 
‘‘(C) Beginning in fiscal year 2029, the total number 
of aliens granted parole pursuant to subparagraph (A) in 
each fiscal year shall not exceed 3,000. 
‘‘(D) The attorney general of a State, or other au-
thorized State officer, alleging a violation of the limitation 
under subparagraph (A) that parole solely be granted on 
a case-by-case basis and solely for urgent humanitarian 
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reasons or a significant public benefit, that harms such 
State or its residents shall have standing to bring an ac-
tion against the Secretary of Homeland Security on behalf 
of such State or the residents of such State in an appro-
priate district court of the United States to obtain appro-
priate injunctive relief. The court shall advance on the 
docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action filed 
under this subparagraph to the greatest extent prac-
ticable. For purposes of this subparagraph, a State or its 
residents shall be considered to have been harmed if the 
State or its residents experience harm, including financial 
harm in excess of $100.’’. 
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