President Joe Biden gives remarks on the southern border. Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA/AP

On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced another major immigration executive action. This time it wasn’t a border crackdown, but a new policy to offer legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who are married to US citizens and have lived in the United States for an extended period of time. The proposal is the largest immigration relief since President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012 to protect from deportation the so-called Dreamers, undocumented youth brought to the United States as children.

The policy, known as “Parole in Place,” would grant work permits and relief from deportation to hundreds of thousands of spouses of Americans if they have been in the country for at least 10 years. It would also make it easier for those who entered the country without documents to obtain legal........

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