The Department of Homeland Security announced a seemingly innocent change in work permit status for foreign students that would give them a huge leg up in competition for jobs with American students.
The so-called Optional Practical Training (OPT) program currently gives all recent alien college graduates a one-year-long, after-graduation work permit. If the alien student has majored in any of the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math), as many of them do, he or she gets an additional 17 months of permitted work.
During these periods U.S. employers are given a substantial bonus for hiring an alien college grad rather than an American college grad with the same skills and the same salary; I figure it can be above $10,000 in many cases involving STEM workers.
Why does the 10 grand bonus go along with the decision to hire the foreign worker?
DHS, by defining a recent college grad as a student, takes both the worker and the employer out from under payroll taxes — thus penalizing the Social Security and Medicare trust funds directly, and our elders indirectly. Congress did not make this decision, at least not directly; but since foreign students and their employers have privileges denied to citizens and green card holders alike, the bonus has been created.
In the current document, DHS proposes to extend the additional 17 months for STEM workers to 24 months; thus from a total period of 29 months to 36 months, about a 20 percent increase. If the bonus given to employers for hiring a STEM graduate is worth $10,000 under the old rules, it is now worth $12,000, and is that much more likely to cause an employer to hire a former F-1 student than a green card or citizen graduate.
Of course, DHS adds some window dressing to the new rule by saying foreign workers cannot directly replace American workers and that universities have a responsibility to monitor these “students.” Neither of these lax rules will do anything to stem the tide of high-tech jobs going to a cheaper foreign worker than a similarly-trained American.
Anyone a recent college grad or currently in college?….this is the appreciation that you get…this is what ocommie and his demwit minions think of your education.
Why is this jerk not sitting in prison?!?
He has shown over and over again that he is a pathological liar and is doing everything he can to bring down our country from the inside.
He and most of his administration should have their very own wing of Gitmo right along with Hillary. They could be sitting in a circle singing Kuhmbaya while watching their Gallows being assembled.
The only reason that Obama is doing this is that he wants to stick it to White people!
I don’t think so as it hurts Black citizens and green card holders, Latinos whether citizens or green card holders, Asian citizens and green card holders, American Indians etc. Obama has no loyalty to Blacks he keeps allowing a larger number of people to compete against them.
He’s got most blacks on welfare now any way, and convinced them they don’t have to work… so most of them don’t care anyway… brainwashed..
And if we do not hire them than we are discriminating. I am waiting for sleeper cells to awaken and tear our country down!
The DHS needs to be removed and replaced with law abiding intelligent citizens!
Obama has no loyalty to anyone!
they zionist jews are the real culprits!
I am only surprised that it was leaked, definitely a candidate for gitmo and the volcano in HI!
…more so to white people, but to blacks as well, we are all Americans and he hates the success of this country, before he became ‘president.’
black people do care and want the jobs; but those who don’t want to work , just don’t care to work anyway!
Please read my post more slowly,,, I said ”MOST”… most have been hoodwinked into working on the democrat ”voting plantation”, for public housing, where mothers are paid to download children they only want for the welfare checks, so they go unsupervised, and turn the public housing into terrorist zones, where they complain about the crime,,, WHICH THEY CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE TO BY HAVING CHILDREN THEY DON’T REALLY WANT… IF YOU CAN’T FEED THEM,, DON’T BREED THEM!! The Democrats are treating blacks like pigs on a farm,,, Fatten them up, keep them in public housing ”pens” and never solve the real problems,,, LEARNING SELF RESPONSIBILITY AND GETTING A JOB!!
Obama does have loyalty to his boss = Rothschild’s Banking cartel !
You need a brain transplant!
are u a jewy?
No, are you a pathetic moron or a Muslim?
I agree! I wish that congress had impeached him in 2008, but they just refused to do it, so I think we can say they are on the take with big money…