While Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been stirred controversy for supporting H-1B visas for foreign workers, the largest guest worker program that is killing jobs for new American college grads is the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. OPT has no caps, gives employers payroll tax deductions up to $12,000 per worker, and has no wage requirements. OPT creates an unfair advantage for foreign grads, costs Social Security and Medicare well over a billion dollars each year, and also serves as a backdoor pipeline to H-1B visas. OPT literally pays companies to avoid hiring Americans. OPT began as a “short-term” program has morphed into a full-blown weapon against American jobs. In 2008, Bill Gates tried and failed to get the H-1B visa program expanded for cheaper labor. He then lobbied Michael Chertoff, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, to extend the duration of OPT beyond 1 year, effectively creating a workaround for H-1B visa caps.
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You sound vaccinated.
You sound unemployed. Patriots who are good at their jobs have nothing to fear. Do you know why so many people have lost their jobs? It is because of Democrats and Unions. They intentionally squeezed good businesses and drove them away. They whined and kept asking for more handouts and guarantees. Then they're unemployed and complain that immigrants stole their jobs. But it was the Deep State who did. They manufacture dissatisfaction and dependency on the government. They've been doing it for generations, and this is only the latest wave. My great-grandfather mined coal for 12 hours a day just to put food on the table, and he had grateful for it. That's what MAGA is all about, getting back to the way things were. Simple people, working hard, and being able to live out their lives.
Yep. Vaccinated.