Thread: Obama Administration Approves 3 Million New Immigrant Workers in One Year

Obama Administration Approves
3 Million New Immigrant Workers
in One Year

Congress to fund ‘100 percent’ of Obama administration’s immigration priorities
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BY: Adam Kredo
December 15, 2015 3:20 pm
At least 3 million foreign nationals were granted work permits, work visas, and green cards in 2013, with most being granted to individuals from Mexico, China, and India, according to the most recent data issued by the Congressional Research Service.
While the 2014 numbers have not been disclosed, recent statistics provided to Congress reveal that work permits continued to be issued at record numbers, according to congressional sources and statistics provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
This includes about 1 million green cards with work authorization, 1 million employment-based nonimmigrant visas for foreign workers, and 1.2 million work-permit authorizations for foreign nationals.
The disclosure of the ongoing uptick in visas and green cards comes amid a larger debate on Capitol Hill about tightening immigration restrictions in light of recent terror attacks and concerns about the U.S. workforce.
The total number of foreign workers in the United States stands at 26 million as of 2014, according to numbers issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“All foreign nationals who gain lawful permanent resident status in the United States are eligible to work, regardless of what preference category or class they entered through,” according to a congressional research memo obtained by the Free Beacon.
These numbers are likely to increase in the next year as Congress prepares to approve a sprawling funding bill that critics say will do little to alter Obama administration plans to boost work permits and visas, as well as permit some 10,000 Syrian refugees to relocate to America.
“The omnibus will fund 100 percent of the continued issuance of work permits, work visas, green cards and refugee admits, continuing to accelerate the U.S. beyond all known historical immigration precedent,” said a congressional source familiar with the yearly spending bill. “The U.S. presently has four times more migrant residents than any other country in the world, regardless of population.”
The U.S. immigrant population—both legal and illegal—hit a “record” 42.4 million in 2014, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
Congressional critics, among them Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), have criticized the funding bill for giving the Obama administration a “blank check” on the immigration front.
“As currently written, this year’s appropriations bills … amount to a blank check for the president to carry out his refugee resettlement plans,” Sessions said in a recent statement.
“Not only will the president be allowed to bring in the 85,000 refugees he has announced on top of current record immigration levels, but this will include at least 10,000 refugees from Syria who will subsequently be able to bring in their foreign relatives,” Sessions said, noting that all of the refugees “are eligible for lifetime government assistance and can draw funds from Social Security and Medicare at Americans’ expense.”
More than 90 percent of recent Middle Eastern refugees who have come to America are on welfare, according to Sessions.
The U.S. Census Bureau “projects that, on our current immigration policy baseline, every single year the total number of immigrants in the United States will increase, the annual rate of immigrant admissions will increase, and the foreign-born share of the population will increase,” according to information published by Sessions’ office.
Additional polling data collected by Pew shows that 83 percent of the public would like the level of immigration frozen or reduced, including at least 92 percent of Republicans polled.
Sessions has further warned that the costs associated with resettling refugees and providing them welfare benefits have not been offset.
“The net cost of resettling 10,000 refugees averages out to $6.5 billion over the lifespan of those refugees,” Sessions wrote in a recent letter to congressional appropriators. “The president’s proposal to resettle 85,000 refugees this fiscal year alone will result in a net cost of approximately $55.25 billion.
On the work permit front, non-Middle Eastern immigrants account for the largest percentage of foreign nationals in the workforce, according to labor statistics.
“Hispanics accounted for 48.3 percent of the foreign-born labor force in 2014 and Asians accounted for 24.1 percent,” according to the most recent numbers.
Lawmakers are further seeking to boost background screenings for new immigrants. One such measure being considered by the Senate would mandate that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, among others, review an individual’s social media accounts to see if there are links to terrorists.
The State Department was recently sued for withholding information from the public about the administration’s refugee resettlement plan.
Homeland Security has had difficulty providing Congress with concrete statistics on the number of Syrians currently in the United States and of those how many are in the country on expired visas.

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This is absolute outright Treason and any Republican in Congress or in any other elected post throughout the United States who doesn't rise up against this insanity needs to be thrown out on their ears with a big kick in the ass.

Our visa program isn't supposed to allow this, our green card system isn't supposed to allow this, our "work permit" system isn't supposed to allow this, and most importantly of all, the US CONSTITUTION DOES NOT ALLOW THIS.

The federal government under the US Constitution has absolutely no authority or power to admit immigrants into the US. This power rests solely with the states, with the authority of the federal government to prohibit it after the year 1808.

Donald Trump needs to make this his next HIT and expose this treasonous scam against American citizens, American workers, and US taxpayers. This is an absolute outrage. My county has 10% unemployment. That's right 10%. And that's the number actually drawing benefits. God only knows what the real number is, it's too horrible to consider, probably 20%.

And this is where TRUMP needs to go after all these "legal immigration" proponents, the ones who want to increase it, the ones who want to make it easier, the ones who want to "halt increases" (very tricky wording, halting increases, not halting already excessive legal immigration) like yes, Cruz, Rubio, Jeb and others. TRUMP is the only one who wants to stop it all until there's evidence that all Americans have plenty of jobs and good wages.

Rick Santorium said ALL of the new job growth since the recession HAS GONE TO ILLEGALS AND FOREIGN VISA WORKERS - NOT TO AMERICAN CITIZENS.

Bush had the job to open the borders wide for illegals & make war monies for those that profit from such while starting the muslim ruler collapses resulting in dispersion of the millions of low IQ, inbred schizos to western countries. EU was in on that too especially Blair.

Then O came into office with the agenda of giving jobs to all illegals and vastly increasing foreign IT/STEM worker visas plus they can bring family too. People have no idea just how vastly we are infiltrated by foreigners. No wonder 15 million American citizens are w/o a full time job.

Yes, he's right. NumbersUSA and FAIR and other anti-immigration organizations have researched that issue and arrived at this conclusion.