Obama administration’s stand on immigration reform issue has becoming crystal clear now as USCIS issued a Draft Solicitation telling vendors to get ready to meet the “Surge” scenario of 9 million ID cards in one year to support possible future reform initiative requirements.

Furthermore, the agency is buying raw materials need to construct Green Cards (Permanent Residency Cards) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards which have been used to implement Obama’s Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program.

The draft also says that they will need a minimum of four million cards per year in 2016. According to draft, “the guaranteed minimum for each ordering period is 4,000,000 cards. The estimated maximum for the entire contract is 34,000,000 cards.”

Jessica Vaughn, an immigration expert at the Centre for Immigration Studies and former State Department official reviewed Gang of Eight’s provisions to estimate that it would have roughly doubled legal immigration. In the “surge” scenario of this RFP, even the relatively high four million cards per year would be more than doubled, meaning that even on its own terms, the agency is preparing for a huge uptick of 125 per cent its normal annual output

The RFP “seems to indicate that the president is contemplating an enormous executive action that is even more expansive than the plan that Congress rejected in the ‘Gang of Eight’ bill,” Vaughn said.