2 thoughts on “Outrageous: The OPT Foreign Students Program”

  1. Fact: The Trump administration has done more to combat the rampant abuse of our immigration system than any other administration in ones lifetime. The Department of Homeland Security should conduct a thorough review of the OPT program to begin the process of either reforming or ending OPT. Thank you President Trump for your leadership on this front and for aligning our immigration programs with the principles of America First.

    Employers who have been abusing the H-1B visa in this manner range from large banks and law firms to universities, healthcare systems, and even municipal park districts.

    Do they even care ??

    The H-1B visa program’s purpose was to address bona fide specialty occupation shortages —chiefly in technical disciplines — not to undercut American workers or import ideological bureaucrats to surveil our workplaces.

    The fact that the program is being used to hire DEI functionaries from abroad is further evidence of how far it has drifted from its original stated mission Rather than recruiting genuinely exceptional top-level talent, the H-1B visa is now regularly used to hire and staff middle management bureaucracies. We have seen the same pattern in other low-skill or non-specialty occupations: project managers, communications staff, HR generalists, marketing coordinators, customer service representatives, and so on.

    1. Thanks, Fred, for some excellent comments.

      You asked, “Do they even care?”

      My response is that they don’t care about the long term interests of the American people. They care about managing costs and control; and the dependent foreign workforce helps them do these things. In many cases, they are “diversitarians” who think bringing in all these foreigners is wonderful.

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