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program announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on June 15. 2012. presented the second deferred action program created under this administration. As of June 30. 2014. over 580.000 persons had been granted deferred action under the program. The use of Presidential "parole power" is one of the oldest and mostestablished provisions of Presidential authority in immigration matters. Parole was first used to allow the entry of refugees who would otherwise be excluded by the national origins quota system. Presidential parole was codified in the original 1952 INA. Immigration and Nationality Act. which authorized the use of discretionary authority to parole aliens into the United States "for emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public interest." In 1956. President Dwight David Eisenhower first used his parole authority to allow 900 World War II orphans into the country and later paroled approximately 30.000 Hungarians. This use of parole power marks the first of many mass admissions by future administrations.