In preparation for a "potential surge" of immigrants by 2016, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services intends to employ a vendor committed to creating 34 million blank green cards. This is due to U.S. President Barack Obama's foreseeable move to push a massive immigration reform before the year ends.
The Permanent Residency Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards will endow any immigrant who possesses it permission to live and work in the country. The USCIS published a draft solicitation online bearing plans to work with a company capable of manufacturing a minimum of 4 million of those per year for five years, and 9 million in the earlier phase.
Although Document Management Division is still not up for purchasing the materials for production, a USCIS official told MailOnline Monday that the draft was arranged "in case the president makes the move we think he will."
However, in the same media outlet, another USCIS official emphasized that the plan bears no indication of the White House's action on immigration reform. Rather, the outline was penned for contingency, in the event that immigration reform legislation gets through Congress.
Former State Department Foreign Service Officer Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News that the online draft "seems to indicate that the president is contemplating an enormous executive action that is even more expansive than the plan that Congress rejected in the 'Gang of Eight' bill."
Nevertheless, an imminent colossal change in the immigration policy in the U.S. is not to be discounted as the president is reported to be determined to go "as far as he can under the law."
Republicans have expressed their disapproval of the idea, tagging it an "amnesty" for the millions who illegally came to United States, thousands of those known to be unaccompanied minors who reached the country after crossing through the southern border with Mexico this summer.
According to CNN "Inside Politics" moderator John King, "If the president uses his executive power as promised, Republicans will be pushing the grass-roots for confrontation, not compromise. An issue we thought after 2014 Republicans would try to deal with, will be with us until 2016 and beyond."
