By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-08 15:54:03 | Updated at 2024-11-08 18:40:12
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Optional Practical Training: A Shadow Workforce with Minimal Oversight
Center For Immigration Studies ^ | 07 November 2024 | Mark Krikorian & Jon Feere
Posted on 11/08/2024 7:48:26 AM PST by zeestephen
OPT, which began as a post-graduation internship program, has evolved into the largest foreign worker program in the United States...OPT was developed by DHS under pressure from Silicon Valley tech leaders looking for ways around worker protections built into the H-1B visa program...Employers hiring foreign students under OPT are exempt from paying Social Security and Medicare taxes...
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: amnesty; immigration; workvisa
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Tragically, the huge expansion of OPT took place under President Trump.
Obama was adding about 30,000 new OPT "student" workers per year.
Trump kicked that up to 125,000 per year, before Covid.
Currently, total OPT student workers in the USA are believed to be around 550,000.
Homeland Security does not publish the numbers - probably because no one at DHS is even tracking the numbers!
Related - political enemies of Elon Musk are trying to get Musk indicted for not actually attending college in the USA, after he entered on a Student Visa.
Today - it is completely legal under OPT to do exactly what Musk did - specifically, enter the USA on a Student Visa, but going directly to a job, instead.
1 posted on 11/08/2024 7:48:26 AM PST by zeestephen
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