The Daily Caller — President Barack Obama has quietly handed out an extra 5.46 million work permits for non-immigrant foreigners who arrived as tourists, students, illegal immigrants or other types of migrants since 2009, according to federal documents released by a Freedom of Information Act request.
“The executive branch is operating a huge parallel work-authorization system outside the bounds of the [immigration] laws and limits written by Congress [and which] inevitably reduces job opportunities for Americans,” said Jessica Vaughan, the policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, while filed the FOIA request.
“If Congress wants to take back control of our immigration system, it needs to control the issuance of work permits, which have been the vehicle for Obama to get around the [legal] limits on immigration and work visas imposed by Congress,” she said.
On Tuesday, senators will vote for or against a budget measure that would sharply limit Obama’s ability to award another five million work permits to illegals via the Department of Homeland Security. Obama promised to hand out the next five million work permits as part of his unpopular November 2014 executive amnesty, which also largely ends efforts to repatriate the 12 million illegals living in the United States.
If Obama’s November amnesty survives court review and weak opposition from GOP leaders, he’ll have added more foreign workers than jobs to the economy since 2009.
Obama’s aides claim he has added 10 million jobs to the economy since 2009.
But Obama’s quiet award of five million work permits, plus his November amnesty, will have added roughly 10 million foreign workers to the economy by the end of 2015. The influx adds to the normal inflow of 1 million immigrants per year and the standing population of 2 million white-collar and blue-collar guest workers.
The 18 million is almost level with the roughly 24 million young Americans who have turned 18 and joined the work force in the six years since 2009. In effect, Obama has given employers the option to hire a government subsidized foreigner in place of roughly one-in-two Americans who have graduated since 2009.
That’s a great deal for employers, because the foreign workers are indirectly subsidized by the government. The subsidy is the government’s promise of citizenship to many workers if they gain and hold jobs sought by Americans, plus the many aid and welfare programs that are provided to all low-income workers.
In June 2013, the Congressional Budget Office said a large influx of migrants would stall wages and spur Wall Street profits.
The influx of foreign workers coincides with a steady drop in the percentage of Americans who are working or seeking work.
In mid-2007, roughly 66.5 percent of Americans older than 16 were working. Since then, it has declined steadily, and is now just under 63 percent. The decline means that roughly 5 million Americans have dropped out of the workforce, and are not even trying to find work.
In November 2014, one in every five U.S. jobs was held by a foreign-born worker, up from one in six jobs in January 2010, according to federal data highlighted by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The data shows that Obama’s efforts have provided work permits to 54,495 tourists in 2009, and 126,998 work permits to tourists in 2014.
His deputies gave work permits to 68,220 students in 2009, and to 147,373 students in 2014. This increase likely includes work-permits for foreign college graduates, said Vaughan.
Officials provided work permits to 68,374 illegals in 2009, to 374,517 illegals in 2013 and 158,194 illegals in 2014.
That category includes more than 650,000 younger illegals who were given work permits after June 2014 under the so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It also includes work-permits for many of the 50,000-plus Central American adults and youths who crossed the border in the summer of 2014.
Overall, 690,459 work-permits were given to 50 categories of foreigners in 2009, Obama’s first year. That number rose to 1,034 million in 2014, yielding a cumulative total of 5.46 million during Obama’s tenure.
The new numbers are only for first-time awards, not work-permit extensions.
Most of the work-permits are temporary — but they can be extended until a court decides to repatriate a foreign worker. The court backlog is now so great that it takes five years or more for a court to decide whether an illegal should be repatriated, said Vaughan.
Officials “can call it a temporary status, but it is effectively indefinite,” she said.
“That’s why this is such a huge incentive to game the system… [because illegals] they know they can get a work permit [and] it takes a long time to resolve the case,” she said.
I am sure Congress will investigate this and I am hoping that these 18 million will be cut off and therefore have to leave this country…This is the reason to impeach this jerk, he doesn’t answer to anyone, and so far it has been ok w/Congress. They must stop him, he might give our country away in 2016 and not say a damn word, the evil POS with a regime of mudslimes
He is doing as he is supposed to do destroy the U.S. as we knew it.
I am not Anglo-Saxon but I was around in the 1950’s and the U.S. was about 90% Anglo. And what is wrong with that? Every country has it’s culture and the U.S. was European in Culture. We also had remnants of past cultures (Native and Spanish) that only beautified the nation as part of it’s rich history. If you investigate passed vintage photographs the U.S. the past was a better place to live in! It was much cleaner less populated and immigration numbers were comfortable. And Americans were happy! I read that Mexicans get all shook up if their culture is imposed on. They hate Mexican culture being compromised in Mexico!
Every nation does! France, England, Japan, China.
If Obummer gets his way he will destroy U.S. culture with his illegal amnesty and his refusal to defend our borders and immigration laws on the books.
I hope you are right Sherri!