Was it not bad enough to have people just walk across the border?
US Gave 957,000 Illegal Aliens Work Permits Under Obama
In the first six years of President Barack Obama's term in office, the U.S. government has issued 5.46 million new work permits to immigrants, including nearly 1 million to illegal aliens.
That is in addition to the 1.1 million legal immigrants and 700,000 guest workers admitted to the country each year.
The immigrants receiving the new work permits form "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," according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
The CIS obtained the figures from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) following a Freedom of Information Act request.
The USCIS data reveal that about 1.8 million new work permits, or Employment Authorization Documents, were issued to aliens with temporary visas or those who entered under the Visa Waiver Program, including about 1.2 million who had a visa status for which employment is not authorized by law.
For example, 470,028 work permits were issued to aliens on tourist visas and 531,691 to foreign students.
About 982,000 new work permits were issued during the Obama administration to illegal aliens or aliens unqualified for admission, including 957,000 aliens who crossed the border illegally and were listed as Entered Without Inspection.