Florida has locked in a 15-year shield against the revival of illegal immigration parole policies used under former President Joe Biden, securing a court-enforced settlement with the Trump administration that state officials say would block future Democratic administrations from loosening border release rules inside the Sunshine State.

The consent decree, entered Feb. 4 in federal court in the Northern District of Florida, resolves a lawsuit Florida first filed in May 2023 that challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s “Parole with Conditions” policy under former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. That policy allowed large numbers of illegal immigrants encountered at the border to be released into the interior with conditions rather than being detained or promptly placed into removal proceedings.