FOIA request reveals ‘shadow’ work permit system not authorized by law adding millions to labor force

By Thomas Lifson

In a stunning report based on data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, The Center for Immigration Studies has revealed that the Obama administration has been flooding the United States with work permits not authorized by law for millions of people.

Government data reveal that about 5.5 million new work permits were issued to aliens from 2009 to 2014, above and beyond the number of new green card and temporary worker admissions in those years. This is a huge parallel immigrant work authorization system outside the limits set by Congress that inevitably impacts opportunities for U.S. workers, damages the integrity of the immigration system, and encourages illegal immigration.

On the one hand, the Obama administration drives down wages, particularly for the lower end of the education spectrum, while on the other hand it blames capitalism and Republicans for the rise in income inequality. It is a hypocritical con game of the highest order. Marxist Hegelians call it “heightening the contradictions.” It is not a new game; in fact, it is one that communist agitators have used for a century and a half. But it has never, as far as I know, been played by a United States president before.

Ryan Lovelace notes in NRO’s The Corner:

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