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Will Racke
2:17 PM 08/01/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/dhs-data-reveals-hidden-work-permits-for-millions-of-migrants/The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a trove of immigration data Monday showing that the U.S. government gives work permits to millions of migrants not usually counted in annual legal immigration totals.
The mass of unseen workers — a complex agglomeration of refugees, asylum recipients and special temporary visa holders — is far larger than the roughly 1.1 million legal permanent residents and 500,000 temporary workers authorized each year.
About 1.7 million Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) were issued to more than 50 classes of immigrants in Fiscal Year 2016, and another 1.6 million work permits have been approved so far in FY 2017, which ends Sept. 30, according to the DHS figures. Immigration skeptics call this group of migrants, whose work permits range from one year to lifetime authorization, a third pipeline of foreign labor that rarely factors into the debate over legal immigration levels.
