Angst grows over Obamas plans for action on immigration

Angst over President Obama's post-election plans on immigration is growing amid revelations that the Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS) has issued a procurement request for as many as 34 million work permits and green cards.

The solicitation, discovered by Breitbart News, says bidders must be able to produce at least 4 million cards annually over a five year contract and surge to provide as many as 9 million documents in the early years of the contract.

This revelation provides startling confirmation of the crisis facing our Republic, said Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) The president is preparing to issue work authorization and legal status to millions of individuals illegally present in the country, in violation of plain statute.

The Alabama lawmaker added that the executive action looked poised to nullify the immigration laws of the United States and its sovereign people.

Similar speculation has lit up the conservative blogosphere, with many seeing it as an early sign of the administrations plans after the midterm elections.

Bob Dane, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Watchdog.org the president appears to be getting his ducks in a row before offering amnesty to illegal immigrants.

Its another petulant display of contempt of Congress, he said.

President Obama postponed action on immigration until after the election, saying he was worried that acting in the summer could politicize the issue. The move was also seen as a gift to vulnerable Senate Democrats who were worried executive action could motivate Republican voters to turn out at the polls.

But the White Houseon Wednesdayinsisted suggestions the procurement order was a precursor to the presidents executive action were crazy and too clever.

The fact of the matter is, there are still decisions to be made about what that policy will entail, and when were ready to announce that policy, we will announce it, press secretary Josh Earnest said. What I would caution you against doing is making assumptions about what will be in those announcements based on the procurement practices of the Department of Homeland Security.

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