Posted on 04/16/2020 3:21:25 PM PDT by NobleFree
The coronavirus epidemic may block many foreign graduates from getting the college-level jobs needed by U.S. graduates this year, according to an article in QZ.com.
The piece of good news for U.S. graduates is a minor compensation for the millions of American college jobs wiped out in the economic crash caused by China’s lethal disease. U.S. students and political activists have begun targeting the program.
Every year, many U.S. universities accept tuition payments from foreign students and then help them get jobs via the little-known Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training (CPT) programs. In 2018, 200,000 foreign graduates and 151,000 foreign students got work permits from these two programs, for jobs starting in the summer.
U.S. students and political activists are increasingly protesting the program, which transfers good jobs from Americans to foreign graduates. “You want to win the youth vote?” asked Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, in an April 9 tweet directed at U.S. politicians. “Suspend all visas. That’s right: Every single visa so every single one of those college kids can get a job.”
The OPT program is also being targeted by a lawsuit.
This year’s OPT award process has been disrupted by the coronavirus and the resulting shutdown at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices, says QZ.com:
To participate, students must file OPT applications from inside the US and do so during the 120-day period starting 90 days before their graduation. After US president Donald Trump declared Covid-19 a national emergency on March 13, universities rushed to close their campuses. Many international students have left the country since. Unless the US government changes its rule, students who didn’t file for OPT before leaving the US won’t be authorized to work [...]
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Something good to come out of this.
Good, and If anybody should have to show immunity, its people like this when they ARE let in if they’re stealing an American job.
Yeah, America First.
End all work visas and send foreign students home. Free the seats and jobs for Americans!
more WINNING
It’s about gdmf time!!
Too bad.....
Good!
I have a daughter with a STEM degree who is looking for work.
If we’re going to buy Amerian, then we need to hire American as well.
So what and who cares?
Amen. And good luck to your daughter.
May G-d smile upon the President and Americans.
And that’s a problem? Why?
I think that the Wuhan Flu kept me from getting promoted in my job about twenty-five years ago.
Great!
Winning!
The airlines are empty right now so shipping them all back home can be part of the “get the American transportation system back to work” program.
Try reading the second sentence of the article.
I was saying that’s great news. Now let’s get all the foreigner students and job-stealing trash out of the US and heavily tax any company that moves any operations overseas.
Foreign students spend lots of money in the USA — universities thrive on them.
in addition, getting foreign students to come and learn in your country is a subtle way of control - when they go back they will be more favorable to your customs - the Romans did that and so did the British empire, successfully
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