Exclusive: Obama Administration Quietly Prepares 'Surge' Of Millions Of New Immigrant

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 Vaughn, 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,” Vaughn said.

Last year, Vaughn 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.

It's not unheard of for federal agencies to plan for contingencies, but the request specifically explains that the surge is related to potential changes in immigration policy.

“The Contractor shall demonstrate the capability to support potential 'surge' in PRC and EAD card demand for up to 9M cards during the initial period of performance to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements,” the document says.

A year ago, such a plan might have been attributed to a forthcoming immigration bill. Now, following the summer's border crisis, the chances of such a new law are extremely low, giving additional credence to the possibility the move is in preparation for an executive amnesty by Obama.

Even four million combined green cards and EADs is a significant number, let alone the “surge” contemplated by USCIS. For instance, in the first two years after Obama unilaterally enacted DACA, about 600,000 people were approved by USCIS under the program. Statistics provided by USCIS on its website show that the entire agency had processed 862,000 total EADs in 2014 as of June.

Vaughn said EADs are increasingly coming under scrutiny as a tool used by the Obama administration to provide legalization for groups of illegal aliens short of full green card status.

In addition to providing government approval to work for illegal aliens, EADs also cost significantly less in fees to acquire, about $450 compared to more than $1000. In many states, EADs give aliens rights to social services and the ability to obtain drivers' licenses.

Vaughn noted there are currently about 4.5 million individuals waiting for approval for the green cards having followed immigration law and obtained sponsorships from relatives in the U.S. or otherwise, less than the number of id cards contemplated by the USCIS “surge.”

USCIS officials did not provide additional information about the RFP by press time

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...-Immigrant-IDs

thats 4 billion in revenue from 9 million cards

This is a massive ploy by Repubes and Democraps. Have Barry pass some executive measures to make money off of application fees for temporary EADs and then couple years down the road pass CIR and make more money off of application fees. Undocumented immigrants are a whole separate industry for these people and too good to let go of so quickly.

Do you even understand how minuscule this money is? In an economy that has trillions in debt, a 1.8billion dollar revenue spike is litterally a drop in the bucket..

Let me put it in terms that you could understand... Your parents pay $2,000 on their mortgage.. Your mom comes up with a plan to have you contribute $3 towards the household.. Your paranoid angry brother rages and claims its a plot for your mom to make some SERIOUS money behind everybody's back.

Breitbart is barely better than faux news when it comes to credibility. This is the process: find some benign document which may account for some possible kind of change in law, make all the out of the world assumptions you can, make a clickbait article which doesn't say anything worth reading, hope that you typical user doesn't have adblock.

All in all this doesn't mean anything solid. US issued 1 million green cards in 2013, maybe a little more in (FY) 2014. Generally most people these days get them via adjustment of status, which adds the interim benefit of an EAD - so we can add another 800,000 there. DACA adds another ~500,000. Then we have all other categories outside of AOS and DACA. All in all my guess is that it will account to about 3-4 million cards. Now, the order is base of 4 million with possibility of up to 34 million, unlikely it would ever go that high, but going for 4-34 million covers anything in between, like a much more manageable 14 million should reform pass.

So, what they uncovered was a memo which takes into account that reform may pass, but it doesn't assume so. If it did, it would likely ask for a much higher minimum. In 2010 when the Dream Act came close to passing USCIS had already begun drafting regulations the day before the senate vote.
It's not uncommon for an agency to plan for contingencies, let's say it doesn't and reform passes, and then what happens? All hell breaks loose because you have millions of people doing infopasses to get interim stamps/letters, phones don't stop ringing asking what's the hold-up, and considering they have a single printing center in Kentucky suddenly having to deal with 3x the load would backlog them at least a good year.

I actually am glad there has been no news about immigration for the last month. The less news this gets now, the better. At this point we are waiting until the election anyway so the worst thing that can happen is negative publicity before the election after having waited the extra months.