From JohnDoe2 post:
"As it states in 8 U.S.C. §1158(d)(2), “An applicant for asylum is not entitled to employment authorization, but such authorization may be provided under regulation by the Attorney General,” after 180 days. The administration is under no obligation to issue such permits, even when there are prima facie legitimate claims. How much more so when this is one mass fraud with almost none of them being legitimate asylees and coming in through mass caravans."
As for the 2019 numbers. I suspect if things continue much longer as they are now, those numbers (2019) will dwarf any of the numbers that happened during the Obama administration. Remember, you heard it here first.