Obama ‘Surge’: Executive Amnesty Begins
(Breitbart) – Despite no official action from the president
ahead of the election, the Obama administration has quietly begun preparing to
issue millions of work authorization permits, suggesting the implementation of
a large-scale executive amnesty may have already begun.
Unnoticed until now, a draft solicitation for bids
issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Oct. 6 says
potential vendors must be capable of handling a “surge” scenario of 9 million
id cards in one year “to support possible future immigration reform initiative
requirements.”
The request for proposals says the agency will need a
minimum of four million cards per year. In the “surge,” scenario in 2016, the
agency would need an additional five million cards – more than double the
baseline annual amount for a total of 9 million.
“The guaranteed
minimum for each ordering period is 4,000,000 cards. The estimated maximum for
the entire contract is 34,000,000 cards,” the document says.
The agency is buying the materials need to construct both
Permanent Residency Cards (PRC), commonly known as green cards, as well as
Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards which have been used to
implement President Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA)
program. The RFP does not specify how many of each type of card would be
issued.
Jessica Vaughan, an immigration expert at the Center for
Immigration Studies and former State Department official, said the document
suggests a new program of remarkable breadth.
The RFP “seems to indicate that the president is
contemplating an enormous executive action that is even more expansive than the
plan that Congress rejected in the ‘Gang of Eight’ bill,” Vaughan said.
Last year, Vaughan reviewed the Gang of Eight’s provisions
to estimate that it would have roughly doubled legal immigration. In the
“surge” scenario of this RFP, even the relatively high four million cards per
year would be more than doubled, meaning that even on its own terms, the agency
is preparing for a huge uptick of 125 percent its normal annual output.
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