We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States, undetected, undocumented, unchecked,

and complete the dang fence.

This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.

Can't stone your bucket where you are. We come from France.

And I am, you know, adamantly again, illegal immigrant.

They're coming in by the thousands.

Just unbelievable.

A wall is an immorality.

Who are you rooting for it?

Those masters of the universe are added again.

They're not sending their best. You maniac! You blow it up!

Welcome to parsing immigration policy, the podcast of the Center for Immigration Studies. My name is

Mark McCorrie, an executive director of the center. And today we're going to

talk about something that is a lot more important than it sounds like. So don't turn off the podcast.

We're going to talk about work permits. The technical term is employment authorization documents,

EADs. And this is way more important than you think because there are millions of people

who have these. And when you get a work permit, you have to get a social security number as well.

I mean, it's a kind of a sort of semi-amnesty to have, if you're an illegal immigrant, to have a work

permit. But there are people, both

illegal immigrants who you have given work permits, as well as legal non-immigrants. In other

words, people who are here on some kind of temporary visa, student visa, whatever it is, whose

status doesn't confer the right to work as, say, an H-1B would.

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