Obama is Requesting 34 Million Blank ID Cards For Illegal Aliens and New Foreign Workers

[Algernon Moncrieff]

This is making the rounds on Facebook:

It looks like Obama plans on moving forward with his executive amnesty plan. The administration is requesting 34 million blank green cards and work permits for illegal aliens and new foreign workers. This executive amnesty must be stopped!

https://www.facebook.com/#!/numbersusa/photos/a.179875468735823.47226.129255907131113/802629573127073/?type=1&theater

Debunked here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/greencards.asp

[still_one]

1. Everyday some garbage like this is circulated

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. True, but this is recent garbage

The origins of this seem to be from an artivle published on the Breitbart site on 10/19/2014. Apparently someone got hold of an RFP for ID card blanks and decided it means amnesty is coming. Never mind that there are already 54 million legitimate ID cards out there in circulation right now.

[still_one]

3. I hear you, and the source

[underpants]

4. Thanks for the Snopes link. This is all the rage in RW world

Limbaugh had a whole session on it today. He extrapolated it out to the creation of a "permanent Democrat majority".

[LonePirate]

5. Those poor folks at Snopes must be working day & night to keep up w/ all of the RW conspiracy nuts

[NYC_SKP]

6. Snopes is written and managed by Michelle Obama and Larry Sinclair.

Linda Tripp is copy editor, and Osama (I'm not really dead) Bin Laden does the voice overs for the upcoming "My FEMA Camp, Your FEMA Camp, We ALL FEMA CAMP" extended play album and indoctrination package.

[louis-t]

7. Don't forget, George Soros. He owns Snopes!1!11

N'stuff.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

8. "Soros" is the response I get from friends-turned-nutters

[progree]

9. I saw this on the news.yahoo.com news front page, was wondering about it

(I didn't take the time to read it though as I suspected it was bukkum). Thanks for letting us know.

[Big Slim]

10. Is Immigration Control A Left or Right Cause?

I'm all for compromise on immigration, and don't fret over a few million illegals getting amnesty. However:

Is the desire for immigration control Left or Right? Well, among privileged hipsters, idealists, and the politically correct, all progressive folks must be for open borders. Or, so it seems.

However, go down to the blue collar areas of town and you'll hear true talk about how big business wants to keep pressure on American workers by way of lax border enforcement. Capitalism, at times, seems to be about cheap labor, above all else. A docile workforce, which will put up with abuse because it is here illegally.

I see this issue as one where blue collar people and left activists diverge. The left activists merely think they are the advocates for the working people, at times.

That's what I see going on.