Universities to White House: Save the OPT Student-to-Worker Program
A group of university associations is asking a former Microsoft executive in the White House to help preserve a very lucrative student-to-worker program that was created at the request of Microsoft. “We understand that the administration is reviewing the OPT [Optional Practical Training] program as it examines additional actions following the April 22 executive order,…
Pro-Migration Group Tells Trump: H-1B Visa Workers Don’t Hurt Jobs, Wages
President Donald Trump may not help Americans if he blocks foreign H-1B visa workers from getting the white-collar jobs sought by unemployed Americans, says a May 18 report by a business-boosted pro-migration group, the National Foundation for American Policy. “There is little reason to think doing so will help American workers,” says the report, authored by Madeline…
Bloomberg News: Import More Migrants Because Americans Can’t Get It Done
The United States will need even more immigrants once the economy has recovered from the coronavirus crash, according to the editorial board of Mike Bloomberg’s news site. “The U.S. will need to bring in more foreign talent, not less, to fill labor shortages in critical fields, notably health care, and to promote innovation,” the editorial board…
Bloomberg OpEd: Immigration Advocates Have Lost the National Debate, for Now
Advocates for greater immigration have to quit their plans to further expand immigration and focus on defending their gains from the last 30 years, says Noah Smith, a globalist advocate at Bloomberg News. “We pro-immigration people lost, thanks to external events, the rabid insane commitment of the anti-immigration forces, and the natural ending of the…
H-1B Lobby Group: House Coronavirus Bill Extends Work Permits for Indian, Chinese Visa Workers
The House coronavirus spending bill allows roughly 500,000 college graduate visa-workers from China, India, and elsewhere to stay in their U.S. jobs, regardless of job losses by American graduates in the economic meltdown, according to a lobby group for H-1B workers. The measure would prevent U.S. graduates from getting hundreds of thousands of college-grade jobs…
In Immigration Debate, Trump Says We Don’t Have Enough American Workers to Fill Skilled...
President Donald Trump told Fox News TV host Laura Ingraham on Friday his 2021 plans to welcome more foreign graduates will not flood the labor market for U.S. college graduates. “I have so many companies coming into this country, you’re not going to have to worry about it,” Trump said in the interview, adding, “It is…
White House Extends 100,000 Work Permits for H-1B Wives from India
The Department of Homeland Security has again delayed a plan to cancel 100,000 work permits which were printed for the Indian spouses of H-1B visa workers by President Barack Obama. The announcement, by choice or not, is a political gift to the growing Indian diaspora in the United States, and it comes just a few…
