Immigration surge? Obama administration to order millions of blank IDs, ‘green cards’
RT.com
October 21, 2014
In a move that may hint at future executive action on American immigration policy, a federal agency stated that it will look for a company to supply millions of blank work authorization and residency permits.
Specifically, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) department posted a draft solicitation earlier this month announcing its intention to seek a vendor capable of delivering “an estimated 4 million cards annually with the potential to buy as many as 34 million cards total.”
The solicitation – which tips off potential bidders of upcoming announcements so they can prepare proposals – also states that the cards would need to be delivered over the course of five years.
“The objective of this procurement is to provide card consumables for the Document Management Division (DMD) that will be used to produce Permanent Resident Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards,” the solicitation reads.
Inside a PDF of the draft solicitation, the USCIS stated that the winning contractor would need to be able to quickly process up to nine million PRC and EAD cards in order to “support potential ‘surge’” in demand and to “support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements.”
Both of these cards are already used under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals plan (DACA), which allows illegal immigrants to avoid deportation for two years if they meet certain conditions – a period of time that can be renewed on a case-by-case basis. Under this plan, immigrants can also earn EAD cards and work within the United States.
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