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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We should have a 5 year moratorium on ALL immigration so that the entire corrupt immigration system can be assessed and have loop holes closed, law established to end anchor babies & those disgusting birth vacations foreign nationals take. We need to shut down the the h1b employment chop shops, stop accepting refugees that are culturally incompatible with a free western civilization, citizenship for military service pathway and any policy that is being abused. For instance NGOs funding illegal alien entry should be criminal & they charity lose their tax exempt status!
Immigration should be about citizenship. An individual who wants to become an American only.
Immigration programs should benefit and add to American culture not import people with agendas from their home countries.
Immigration should not benefit WEF corporations bottom line. H1b immigration harms Americans. Furthers WEF corporate feudalism.
No, it doesn't. President Trump said that it is OK, and that "We need smart people coming into our country". We elected President Trump, we can't flake out now, not when we are so close. We need to trust the plan. If President Trump believes that H1B visas are needed, then it is probably because they are important to the overall plan. Maybe Musk and Ramaswamy are right, Americans are lazy and have embraced mediocrity. An influx of immigrants might help push Americans to get off their lazy butts and get back to work. You don't just get a cushy office job because you were born here. I've noticed that the loudest complainers who say they've lost their job to immigrants are also those who can't show up to work sober, on time, and pass a drug test. We knew that the plan would be difficult, and painful. Destroying and rebuilding the system will be hard on us all, or at least, those of us who can't do an honest days work.
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.