New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 5/26/20

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What's Happening at the Center
In his recent piece, Mark Krikorian explains that last month's presidential proclamation temporarily suspending a tiny sliver of permanent immigration also called for a review of the alphabet soup of foreign-worker programs. In response, the Center put together a list of 20 steps the president should take immediately. The usual lobbying groups, who have foolishly incorporated foreign worker programs into their business models, have clamored for more visas. But one group that's severely affected by the importation of foreign labor finally become self-aware and stood up for itself. More than two dozen College Republican and Young Republican chapters came together to send an open letter to the president asking him to end the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program and suspend the H-1B program.

As their letter notes, "Suspending all guestworker programs is ideal, but the OPT & H-1B schemes are especially egregious." The OPT program has no basis in law and is a three-year worker program for tech firms. Foreign students who have graduated are permitted to masquerade as students while working and waiting to receive an H-1B visa. Absurdly, because they're pretending to be students, neither the OPT employees nor their employers have to pay payroll taxes, resulting in a subsidy for hiring foreign graduates instead of Americans.

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The Center for Immigration Studies held a recent panel discussion on twenty actions the president could take immediately that could potentially reduce the number of temporary foreign workers by 1.2 million, or nearly 50 percent.

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