MEDIA: OPT: Unauthorized Program that Harms American Graduates

H/T Dave Brat and Steve Bannon's WarRoom.ORG:
<URL:https://warroom.org/warroom-battleground-ep-735-building-back-a-christian-coalition-congress-can-stop-the-h1b-chaos/>
see IAProject.ORG's Rosemary Jenks on whether NeverBackDown.ORG's
Ken Cuccinelli and Steve Cortes advised Casey DeSantis to dispatch
Ron to David McIntosh's ClubForGrowth.ORG to beg for permission to
deploy the likes of Mike Emmons onto Lachlan Murdoch's FoxNews.COM
campaign stump to impeach Donald Trump for failing to rescind George
Bush and Barack Obama's extra-legal OPT and H-4 EAD programs:
<URL:https://iaproject.org/resources/fact-sheet/opt-unauthorized-program-that-harms-american-gradu/>
| OPT as we know it today can be traced back to the 1950s in some
| form, but the actual mutation into today's program began in 2008
| under President George W. Bush.
|
|     Then-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff coordinated with the tech
| industry to bypass Congress to transform OPT by significantly
| expanding the duration of OPT status, allowing unemployed students
| to maintain status while looking for work, and allowing OPT workers
| to maintain F status for the duration of time an employer had an H-
| 1B petition in process with the government.
|
|     These changes, never authorized by law, cemented the pipeline
| that currently feeds F student visa holders into OPT, then to H-1B
| visas, and finally into the enormous backlog for employment-based
| green cards.

What odds does James Braid give Trump that Mike Johnson's House.GOV
will pass Paul Gosar's H.R. 2315?
<URL:https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8784>
| The Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act does not prohibit F-1
| students from working in the United States while in school.  It
| simply terminates an unauthorized and unfair program that allows F-1
| students to remain in the United States for another three years
| following the completion of their education.
|
| Original Cosponsors:
|
| Representatives Biggs, Burchett, Gill, Hageman, Miller (IL), Moore
| (AL), Ogles, Roy
|
| Outside Froup Support:
|
| America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Federation for American
| Immigration Reform (FAIR), Immigration Accountability Project (IAP),
| NumbersUSA

John
groenveld@acm.org
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