Asylum-seekers must wait at least six months to get a work permit. That cannot be changed without Congress.
Immigrants from Venezuela are reflected in a marble wall while taking shelter at the Chicago Police Department's 16th District station in May. In Chicago, where 13,000 migrants have settled in the last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to ask for parole for asylum-seekers, which, they say, would allow him to get around the wait for a work permit.
The Homeland Security Department has sent more than 1 million text messages urging those eligible to apply for work permits, but it has shown no inclination to speed the process. A backlog of applications means the wait for a work permit is almost always longer than six months. In the meantime, migrants unable to get work permits have filled up homeless shelters in several cities.
But protests against the migrants have escalated. Ten people were arrested on Staten Island late Tuesday when demonstrators blocked a bus carrying migrants. A police spokesperson said nine people were charged with disorderly conduct and one with assault. “They don’t want to tell the electorate there’s nothing we can do. No politician wants to say that. So they have kind of become the new squeaky wheel, saying, `Give us work authorization,’” he said. “Saying that is much easier than getting it. But it’s sort of, you know, a good soundbite.”
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