Tag: OPT

OPT: Taxpayer-Subsidized Program Displaces U.S. Tech Workers

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

OPT

President Trump’s June 22 Executive Order (EO) that suspended through year-end 2020 several temporary nonimmigrant visas that include employment authorization is a good beginning. But as the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu would have said way back around 600 B.C., “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The journey for true immigration reform that helps – not crushes – American workers has been, figuratively, a thousand-mile uphill trip. The forces that oppose commonsense immigration policies are powerful: globalists, lobbyists, religious institutions, the mainstream media, Silicon Valley, advocacy groups and immigration lawyers.

Continue reading “OPT: Taxpayer-Subsidized Program Displaces U.S. Tech Workers”

Anatomy of a U.S. Job Killer: The Optional Practical Training Program

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

Pinch me! I must be dreaming. After years of displacing U.S. tech workers, the Optional Practical Training program has finally appeared on Congress’ radar. OPT has gobbled up U.S. jobs at an alarming rate and is now larger than the notorious H-1B visa program, created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, that grants 85,000 employment-based visas to foreign nationals each year even though there’s an abundance of skilled American workers available.

Continue reading “Anatomy of a U.S. Job Killer: The Optional Practical Training Program”

Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated

Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi

Optional Practical Training (OPT), a temporary employment program for foreign undergraduate and grad students on F-1 visas, is the vehicle that corporate America, and more specifically the IT industry, uses to circumvent the 85,000 H-1B visa cap and to deny jobs to or displace U.S. workers. Its usage has reached an all-time high.

Continue reading “Fed OPT Program Hits Record High; U.S. Worker Displacement Unabated”