Claim: President Obama issued an executive order to obtain
FALSE
Examples: [Collected via email, October 2014]
I just saw something about Obama signing executive orders allowing 100,000 Haitians to come here? "This past Friday, this administration opened the door to one hundred thousand Haitians, who are moving here without a visa, but who will legally apply for work permits. A few weeks ago, ICE was on the hunt for a printer capable of handling a "surge" of NINE MILLION GREEN CARDS which would be used to "support possible future immigration-reform initiative requirements."
If that sounds like a lot, consider that in an average year, only about one million green cards are doled out. Is this rumor true?
It looks like Obama plans on moving forward with his executive amnesty plan. The administration is requesting
Obama orders blank social security cards to be used for illegal aliens and foreign workers
Origins: In
a spate of claims concerning blank green cards began to circulate on blogs and across social media sites. According to the rumors, President Obama issued an executive order to prepare
The rumor stemmed from a solicitation for bids posted on
The request for proposals says the agency will need a minimum of four million cards per year. In the "surge," scenario in 2016, the agency would need an additional five million cards — more than double the baseline annual amount for a total of "The guaranteed minimum for each ordering period is 4,000,000 cards. The estimated maximum for the entire contract is 34,000,000 cards," the document says.
Unnoticed until now, a draft solicitation for bids issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
In particular, quotes that suggested the bid was placed "to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements" and the word "surge" were widely repeated. Most accounts linked directly to the USCIS bid, originally posted on
USCIS Contracting will be posting a solicitation for the requirement of Card Stock used by the USCIS Document Management Division. 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 requirement is for an estimated
Card Consumables
Solicitation Number: HSSCCG-14-R-00028
Agency: Department of Homeland Security
Office: Citizenship & Immigration Services
Location: USCIS Contracting Office
The
USCIS is seeking 100% polycarbonate solid body PRC and EAD card stock with RFID and holographic images embedded within the card construction substrate layers, card design service, and storage for secure identification card stock at the vendors manufacturing facilities with an option to store at the USCIS Forms Center, when directed, and related technical support services. The Contractor shall deliver a combined volume of up to
USCIS currently has over 54 million personalized cards in circulation. These cards have been specially designed and contain embedded security features and other physical characteristics that make them unique to the USCIS even before the actual card is personalized.
The combined estimates mentioned in the RFP led many to mistakenly believe that President Obama planned to allow more than
Dane told Watchdog.org that President Obama appears "to be getting his ducks in a row" before legalizing illegal residents by executive fiat. "It's another petulant display of contempt of Congress," he said.
"There aren't enough federal employees from here to Pluto to do adequate background checks on
The USCIS bid request was not issued by President Obama via executive order, nor did it make any mention of social security cards. The numbers frequently cited in references to this bid state the maximum materials that a successful bidder must have the potential to manufacture; but those estimates in no way reflect the actual number of documents USCIS expects to issue in the short term, and the word "surge" referred not to a number of immigrants expected but to a number of documents anticipated (in line with document current circulation numbers).
Last updated: 22 October 2014
Sources: |
Strong, Jonathan. "OBAMA ADMINISTRATION QUIETLY PREPARES 'SURGE' OF MILLIONS OF NEW IMMIGRANT IDS."
Breitbart. 19 October 2014. Ward, Kenric. "Order for Millions Of Blank Work Permits, Green Cards Raising Amnesty Concerns."
Fox News. 21 October 2014.