[Author]by the El Reportero’s wire services
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Conservative politicians are warning that President Barack Obama is preparing a plan to legalize the status of millions of undocumented immigrants after learning of a procurement request made by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service for up to 34 million work permits and green cards over the next five years.
Obama “is preparing to issue work authorization and ‘legal’ status to millions of individuals illegally present in the country, in violation of plain statute,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said, as quoted Thursday by the online daily The Hill.
Similar speculation has been circulating on the social networks and in conservative blogs since, last Sunday, Breitbart News reported that the USCIS had requested the supplies to be able to produce millions of green cards and work permits.
USCIS spokesman Christopher Bentley said in a statement that requests of this kind “are frequent practice for all USCIS contracts and allow the agency to be prepared for fluctuations in the number of immigration applications received, which can arise for any number of reasons.”
In addition, at his daily press conference, White House press secretary Josh Earnest cautioned reporters on Wednesday not to make “assumptions about what will be in those announcements based on the procurement practices of the Department of Homeland Security.”
Obama had promised to announce executive action on immigration before the end of the summer, but later he backpedaled and decided to postpone such an announcement until after the Nov. 4 midterm elections so as not to harm the election chances of Democratic candidates, the White House said.
