Posted on 11/29/2025 12:00:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Optional Practical Training program must be reformed—or ended outright.
For too long, many Republicans have confined their criticisms of mass migration to illegal immigration. But the truth is that our entire legal immigration system is broken—and the consequences for Americans have been nothing short of disastrous.
The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program is a clear example of the urgent need for reform.
Recent reports have outlined the Trump Administration’s plans to overhaul or end OPT. As I noted in a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow earlier this month, this is welcome news. It would represent a long-overdue correction to one of the most abused programs in the U.S. immigration system.
The OPT program is a work benefit tied to the F-1 visa, the standard nonimmigrant student visa that allows foreign nationals to attend U.S. colleges and universities. The program allows student visa holders to work in the U.S. for up to 12 months after finishing their degree; STEM graduates are allowed an additional 24-month extension.
Today, however, the program functions as a cheap-labor pipeline for big business—and a backdoor into the U.S. job market for foreign workers. OPT serves the financial interests of large corporations and academic institutions at the expense of young American workers and students.
This system boxes young Americans out of the workforce, discriminates against American workers in favor of foreign labor, and suppresses wages and job opportunities for U.S. graduates. At the same time, it distorts our higher education system, encourages visa mill fraud, and poses a serious threat to our national security and prosperity.
Americans never asked for, or even authorized, this program. OPT was created (and then expanded) by unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch, without the input or approval of Congress, circumventing the caps and limits that govern employment-based visas.
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Simple solution: stop all immigration. Revoke all visas.
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Our entire legal immigration system is broken
<><> the consequences for Americans have been nothing short of disastrous.
<><>The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program is an example of the urgent reform needed.
<><>Recent reports have outlined the Trump Administration’s plans to overhaul or end OPT.
<><>signals a needed correction to a much-abused programs in the US immigration system.
<><>OPT is a work benefit tied to the F-1 visa,
<><>the non-immigrant student visa that allows foreigners to attend US colleges and universities.
<><>it allows student visa holders to work in the US for up to 12 months after getting a degree;
<><>STEM graduates are allowed an additional 24-month extension.
<><>OPT is little more than a cheap labor vehicle.
It is all designed to disempower white men. Like most government things.
If you are in favor of OPT then you are evil PERIOD.
” was created (and then expanded) by unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch, without the input or approval of Congress “
The key point.
Nobody here asked for this. The unholy alliance of the Woke Left and Leninist rope salesman created it. Most people have never heard of it until now.
Most old Freepers won’t read this or blame the victim.
The TDS globalist Freepers will not touch this thread.
What do you globalists have to say?
Thanks for posting this. I don’t expect much interest because most Freepers seem to be globalists and have TDS.
Sen. Schmitt has only been there a couple years...where are all the other senior senators on this?
We need to remove all foreign nationals in our country, visa overstays, Temporary groups, and subversive refugee groups etc. Once this is completed we need to have a 5 to 10 year moratorium on immigration. People must assimilate.
Unfettered third world immigration is not a solution for the West’s low birth rates. It’s a terminal punishment for them
The United States should, at a minimum, be a 90% white country and white immigration should be encouraged.
Cry racism all you want. I don't care.
We will never be a prosperous nation opening the floodgates to Third World savages. We will only be destroying our children's birthright and cursing them to live a racially balkanized dystopia where they are both brutally victimized while also being expected to pay for all the gibs.
“Simple solution: stop all immigration. Revoke all visas.”
I’d love to agree but the BIG PROBLEM is that the US doesn’t bother to educate the vast majority of their kids, and we only get away with that due to immigrants who actually got a decent education.
If you don’t believe me, walk on to any college campus that deals with STEM programs, or look up the names on a few patents.
I think Trump kinds of understands that, but he’s communicating HORRIBLY on the subject.
Bob you are an evil lying anti American SOB. You will burn in hell one day.
Thx.......Bush, again.
white Christians of good character, only. Like our Founders intended.
“muh economy! muh corporation!”
I dngaf about muh economy if it means dispossessing our children of their nation. I’d rather live in a Great Depression than live in a nation i don’t recognize and that my kids have no future in. Screw you open border globalists ! Money is your god!
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