Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is requesting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem immediately address the Biden administration’s failure to track and enforce parole expirations. Grassley’s inquiry follows a July 2025 DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, which confirmed that “under [Biden] DHS policies and practices, aliens could remain unlawfully in the United States after parole expiration without enforcement consequences.” Over 61,400 parolee visas expired from November 2024 to February 2025.
“The OIG found that multiple Biden-DHS components – including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – failed to uphold their respective responsibilities under federal law and executive policy for tracking and enforcing parole expirations,” Grassley wrote.
According to the DHS OIG report, under the Biden administration:
- CBP failed to track parole expirations, despite having a congressional mandate to report data on overstays to Congress and the public;
- USCIS did not establish or maintain a centralized, reliable data system to monitor parole expiration, despite being required to do so; and
- ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations was not notified by CBP or USCIS when parolees entered the United States, and ICE did not automatically consider parolees as removable after their parole term expired.
Grassley is calling on the Trump administration to implement OIG’s three recommendations, including (1) designating a DHS component or office to oversee parole expiration and report on the prevalence of the issue; (2) developing a process to identify parolees who are no longer authorized to remain in the United States; and (3) ensuring ICE receives timely, accurate data regarding parolees who are no longer authorized to remain in the United States.
Read Grassley’s letter to DHS HERE.
