The Department of Homeland Security is opening the door to the parole status of migrants to be reviewed, leading to their eventual removal from the country.

The Trump administration is empowering federal immigration officers to consider whether to strip temporary legal status from migrants who entered through former President Joe Biden's signature "parole" programs in an effort to ramp up deportations to record levels,

A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.

The far-reaching move empowers federal immigration agencies to target a population of migrants who came to the U.S. with the government's permission.

ICE agents have reportedly been issued a "road map on how to use expansive powers that were long reserved only for encounters at the southern border."