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Trump Admin Turning Legal Immigrants Into Undocumented Ones By Stopping Green Cards
The Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones.... by literally turning off the printers that print the documents.
There are more than 100,000 immigrants here legally, whom USCIS approved for new green cards or work authorizations and they can't get their "papers" because USCIS literally turned off the printers without telling anyone
Without telling Congress, the administration has scaled back the printing of documents it has already promised to immigrants — including green cards, the wallet-size I.D.’s legal permanent residents must carry everywhere to prove they are in the United States lawfully.
That is, the “show me your papers” administration has literally switched off printers needed to generate those “papers.”
In mid-June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ contract ended with the company that had been printing these documents. Production was slated to be insourced, but “the agency’s financial situation,” USCIS said Thursday, prompted a hiring freeze that required it to ratchet down printing.
Yet another crisis in the immigration system that most people haven't heard about and won't. Look for Stephen Miller's fingerprints.
Some of the missing green cards are for immigrants newly approved for legal permanent residency. Others are for existing permanent residents who periodically must renew their identity cards, which expire every 10 years but sometimes must be replaced sooner (for example, if lost). These immigrants have completed every interview, required biometric assessment, cleared other hurdles — and often waited years for these critical credentials.
Some 50,000 green cards and 75,000 other employment authorization documents promised to immigrants haven’t been printed, USCIS said....
USCIS, which is funded almost entirely by fees, is undergoing a budget crisis, largely caused by financial mismanagement by political leadership. The printing disruptions are no doubt a preview of chaos to come if the agency furloughs about 70 percent of its workforce, as it has said it will do in a few weeks absent a congressional bailout.
Even before Trump, people with a green card live in terror of losing it and feel the need to protect it like their life depends on it. Now people are caught in this madness, with Republicans purposely preventing them obtaining government documents they are entitled to.
The Immigration and Nationality Act requires every adult legal permanent resident to carry their green card “at all times.” Failing to carry it is a misdemeanor, subject to jail time or fines. Immigrants must also show their green card to apply for jobs, travel or reenter the United States.
Understandably, panicked immigrants have been inundating USCIS with calls seeking to locate their documents.