Please share these two articles.
1.) "Most Americans don't know about these programs that chip away at middle-class jobs." byPaul Nachman, Washington Examiner, March 13, 2019.
2.) "How OPT Hurts American College Students and American Tech Workers" by Hilarie Gamm, March 12, 2019.
Most Americans don't know about these programs that chip away at middle-class jobs. Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan infamously called for more white-collar visas in order to "suppress the wage levels of the skilled."
Increasingly, foreign students use the F-1 visa to gain access to the U.S. labor market. As H1visajobs.com explains, students look for "an employer willing to offer a job on OPT (Optional Practical Training) followed by STEM extension and sponsorship for H-1B visa." The H-1B visa, in turn, creates an opportunity for green card sponsorship and, ultimately, U.S. citizenship.
"The belief that 'OPT provides a relief valve for employers who cant find enough workers' is in actuality a myth - a story, a fable, that those who benefit from cheap, pliable labor want you to believe is true," writes Hilarie Gamm. "The reality is, today, more than 50 million Americans between the ages of 18 - 54remain unemployed."
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"Most would agree that employers should be able to bring in workers of outstanding skill and expertise," writes Paul Nachman, "but that's not what's happening with most H-1B guest workers, who are tackling tasks Americans can do and, in many cases, are already doing."
"The United States already produces a large surplus of qualified, STEM graduates to fill the number of open STEM positions. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, an astonishing 74 percent of STEM graduates are not employed in the STEM occupations they so rigorously prepared themselves for."
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Thank you.
| JEREMY |
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