Sessions: 22 green cards annually per 1 S.C. high school grad

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The Obama administration is issuing so many green cards to immigrants that just the monthly doling out of over 83,000 dwarfs the total high school graduating class of all South Carolina schools — and those kids have to compete with the green card holders for jobs.

A fact sheet provided by the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, revealed that the United States grants “Lawful Permanent Resident Status,” or the “green card,” to 83,333 new immigrants a month. That is some 1 million a year.

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