DHS eyes revision that would allow illegals to work in U.S. for twice as long
during President Trump’s tenure, said the changes create bizarre incentives, including elevating some illegal immigrants to more work status than legal guest-workers, such as holders of the highly skilled H-1B visa., who is now director of the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration at the America First Policy Institute.
“All these guys want to do is get them in the country and when they get them in the country they will bend every rule and policy to keep them here,” Mr. Gonzalez said. “I believe this to be a deliberate policy.” Under the law, illegal immigrants who make asylum claims can apply for work permits 150 days after they file their asylum applications.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2023, which ran from Jan. 1 to March 30, some 281,028 asylum-seekers applied for work permits, as did 147,143 migrants seeking adjustment of status. Another 447,730 applications were submitted for other categories.By contrast, during the same three months in 2018 under the Trump administration, just 382,278 work permit applications were filed. In 2019 it was 386,415. In 2020, after the 2019 border surge, it was 520,023.
USCIS’s ombudsman, in its 2023 annual report, called work permits a “pain point” and the “most known bottleneck of the agency.”The ombudsman said the agency has taken steps to ease the pain, including a regulation issued last year that automatically extended some work permits that were about to expire because of the agency’s backlog. That covered more than 400,000 migrants.The draft policy on five-year eligibility could be another solution — though it’s not without controversy.
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