The White House is considering granting deportation relief to more than one million people who entered the US illegally before marrying American citizens.

The assist to so-called “mixed-status couples” is seen as another concession to would-be Democratic voters ahead of the Nov. 5 election — and would follow potential executive action by Biden to tighten border security, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The outlet added that administration officials believe any backlash over an amnesty order would be tempered by voter sympathy for the couples.

A final decision is not imminent, but the Journal reported the idea has been gaining traction since the summer of 2023.

According to the immigration advocacy group Fwd.us, around 1.1 million illegal immigrants are married to American citizens.

While immigrants who marry Americans typically qualify for green cards, many “mixed-status” couples have one partner who is ineligible for legal permanent residency for various reasons — including entering the US illegally more than once or using forged legal papers.

Should the White House go forward with its plan, it is likely to implement a “parole in place” program, a version of which already allows spouses, parents or children of active-duty military and veterans to remain in the US in one-year increments, per the WSJ.

Any program would also only apply to those who entered the country unlawfully, as opposed to someone who immigrated legally and overstayed their visa, according to the report.

In addition, the potential order is expected to only apply to couples who have been married a set amount of time, such as five or 10 years.

Biden has been facing pressure to act on the border — even from within his own party — as sanctuary cities across the country face overwhelming numbers of migrants seeking shelter and chaos ensues at the US-Mexico frontier..

The president has not committed to pushing out an executive action to crack down on border crossings — and has noted he’s not sure he has the ability to do so.

“We’re examining whether or not I have that power,” Biden said in a Univision interview that aired April 9.

The White House has been calling on Congress to pass a bipartisan bill that would include border security funding — blaming the Republican majority in the House for blocking the bill from going forward — while White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said an executive action would pale in comparison to Congressional funding.

“There is no executive action — no executive action that the President can take — no matter how aggressive it could be, can deliver the significant policy reforms and additional — additional resources that Congress could have provided that Republicans rejected,” she said at a press briefing in February.

Republicans have insisted that Biden has all of the powers he needs to secure the border, but refuses to use them.

“The current administration has continually ignored any provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that it dislikes on ideological grounds  — and has attempted to unilaterally rewrite immigration law without the participation of Congress,” Matt O’Brien, the director of the conservative Immigration Reform Law Institute and a former immigration judge, told The Post.

“This is a continuation of an abusive trend, which began with DACA, and has now progressed to deliberate misuse of the parole authority and deferred enforced departure,” O’Brien added. “I shudder to think what comes next.”

“The INA is very clear, people who broke our immigration laws don’t get a free pass simply because they marry a US citizen or have a child on US soil. And the White House has no authority to unilaterally give them one,” O’Brien argued.

“There are already processes in place for the immigrant spouses of American citizens to obtain legal status,” agreed Ken Cuccinelli, a former top DHS official in the Trump administration and senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America. “They are rife with fraud that needs to be fixed, which I doubt this administration is interested in, so I suspect this is just another aspect of our immigration system that Joe Biden seems intent on making worse instead of fixing.”

The White House did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Post.

Polls have consistently shown immigration to be a top issue for voters this election cycle, with a Gallup survey showing that it was the most important question for 28% of voters in March, behind only the economy (30%).