Submitted by: Nancy Battle
A
280,000 square foot compound in Alexandria, Virginia in the Crystal
City neighborhood, will be rented by the government to 'process'
illegals. It will cost taxpayers almost $65,000 monthly, before any
other expenses are included. Another 3,100 government employees will be
added to the federal payroll. The website, ArlingtonNow.com, quotes sources saying salaries at the facility will range from $34,400 to $157,100, and also identifies the building as "Crystal Plaza 4, a 46-year old office building." Once again, Judicial Watch rings the bell.
The
numbers are breathtaking and include a $647,590 monthly rent bill for a
new facility at 2200 Crystal Drive in Arlington Virginia. It will be
the processing headquarters for two Obama amnesty plans—Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)—that
will allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S. Last
month a federal court in Texas blocked the amnesty order, but records
show the administration is ready to pull the trigger if it succeeds in
appealing the ruling.
In fact a few weeks ago Judicial Watch reported
that, despite the court order, the administration continued working
behind the scenes to quickly award multi-million-dollar contracts to
firms that can expeditiously process millions of illegal immigrants. A
Request for Proposal (RFP) from the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) estimates that the population of potential requesters for the
president’s deferred action will be “approximately four million people”
and that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) anticipates
the initial filing of “approximately five to six million forms” related
to the amnesty order which also covers the illegal immigrant parents of
U.S. citizens and lawful residents.
It’s
clear in the RFP’s pricing spreadsheets that it’s a huge taking that
will cost American taxpayers a chunk of change, but now we have actual
figures provided by government sources close to the negotiations. The
Crystal City headquarters will get $1.5 million in
“renovations/furniture,” $4 million in “telephone/data electronics,”
$2.6 million in “workstation/desktop equipment” and $850,000 in
“security upgrade,” according to the documents reviewed by JW. Around $3
million will be spent on an immigration processing program known as
Computer Linked Adjudication Information Management System (CLAIMS) and
$900,000 will go to video teleconference equipment. The annual rent will
be $7,771,082, the document shows, and on-site guard services will run
over $1 million.
Other
expenses include over $1 million for barcode readers and printers,
$90,000 for overtime utilities and tens of thousands for things such as
employee background checks, drug testing, “instructor travel expenses”
to train new hires and basic training books. The projected payroll for
fiscal year 2015 alone is $21 million for an initial 1,000 extra federal
workers. If the court injunction is lifted, the document says, and the
initial planning estimate holds true, USCIS “might ultimately need to
increase its total program costs of between $324 and $484 million per
year.” That’s based on the assumption that 60% of all individuals who
may be considered for DACA or DAPA would elect to file a request,
according to the government memo. Read more at Judicial Watch
According to this source,
Crystal City is in the southeastern corner of Arlington, Virginia,
south of downtown Washington, D.C. Office buildings and residential
high-rises are connected to retail stores though a web of underground
corridors. "A large part of Crystal City is an underground city." Located in Crystal City are the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Marshals Service, the EPA and some "satellite" offices for the Pentagon. Within Crystal City is Pentagon City.
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