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DHS’s Crackdown on OPT Fraud Will Not Fix the Program’s Biggest Problems cis.org/Jacobs/DHSs-Cr… via @CIS_org
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@ifspp we bring together civic minded people to advocate on behalf of American workers harmed by employment visa programs & demand Congress enact reforms.
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The OPT Foreign ‘Student’ Work Program: End It, Don’t Mend It
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There are a number of measures that can be taken at the state level to counter H-1Bs. Granted, Congress must act but, we are seeing positive steps being taken by governors, lieutenant governors and labor commissioners in several states.
Andrew Ireland@AndrewIrelandIN
🚨 Huge. Indiana Lieutenant Governor says he will help fight to END H-1B visas at our state universities. “This isn’t good governance when we protect the people of the world more than we protect our own citizens.” American jobs are for Americans.
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The law still allows physical postings of the “Notice of Intent” inside the hiring department or office, meaning the university can continue sponsoring H-1B employees without maintaining a public webpage listing those notices.
Please keep the pressure on them until they make a public announcement that they will stop sponsoring H-1Bs.
But this is a great victory nonetheless because it shows that the university is facing backlash and may think twice about sponsoring H-1Bs in the future.
David Wasinger@davidwasinger
Glad to see @Mizzou take action on these H-1B postings. Missouri taxpayers should not be funding the replacement of American workers while our own graduates are looking for jobs. Public universities must put Missouri students, Missouri families, and American workers first, not the globalist H-1B pipeline.
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@davidwasinger @Mizzou Thank you for bringing attention to this, Lieutenant Governor!
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Glad to see @Mizzou take action on these H-1B postings.
Missouri taxpayers should not be funding the replacement of American workers while our own graduates are looking for jobs. Public universities must put Missouri students, Missouri families, and American workers first, not the globalist H-1B pipeline.
Chris Brunet@chrisbrunet
update: since this post went viral, the “notice of intent to hire H-1B” page at @Mizzou has gone from over a dozen active posting to now ZERO
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
This is actually insane. 42 minutes ago today. No one took that conference seriously, it is horrifyingly common and a normal OPT practice to set up fake offer letters and even fake payrolls on OPT.
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
"This H-1B visa program is a total fraud. It's a total scam!"
@SenEricSchmitt has strong words for the globalist forces that are ripping jobs away from American workers and giving them to foreigners just to make a quick buck on a few tax breaks.
It has to stop.
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update: since this post went viral, the “notice of intent to hire H-1B” page at @Mizzou has gone from over a dozen active posting to now ZERO
Chris Brunet@chrisbrunet
Missouri University (@Mizzou) just posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Strategic Communications Associate Salary: $64,000 Nobody in America was qualified for this job.
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs.
Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes.
FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated.
I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy.
But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay.
First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories.
Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living.
Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment.
I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.
Amy Nixon@texasrunnerDFW
We basically did NINJA loans again but this time with non-US citizens Many homebuilders, such as Bloomfield Homes in Celina, TX offered access to FHA loans for H-1B visa holders through their preferred lenders until May of 2025, when Trump had HUD shut these lending practices down Some of these FHA loans offered 100% financing through a combination of a standard FHA loan and access to State assisted first time homebuyer grants for the 3% downpayment Yes, you read that correctly, your tax dollars funded home-buying grants for non-US Citizens during the Biden administration Is it just a coincidence that home prices began falling at a rapid pace in Celina, TX almost immediately after Trump shut this program down? How many people bought a brand new home with zero money down at peak 2022-2024 pricing? You won’t see an impact at a national level, but you WILL see it in certain markets with a lot of H-1B tech workers and new construction
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"Only the tip of the iceberg," says Todd Lyons. Remember the OPT program reduces our Social Security and medicare revenues! Foreign students employed (and their employers) are exempt from Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment taxes. @VP
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement@ICEgov
📺WATCH: New ICE HSI data shows rampant foreign student fraud — ICE director says these probes are only the beginning. ➡️We’ve identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly-suspect employers. ➡️We’ve discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed. ➡️We’ve found phantom employees; those with employment authorizations who never showed up at work.
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
The Optional Practical Training program is a creation of the administrative state, not Congress. It undercuts American students and functions as another avenue for de facto amnesty.
The Trump DHS should eliminate it completely.
Jennie Taer@JennieSTaer
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students “who claim to be working for highly suspect employers” as part of the federal government’s Operational Practical Training program. Here’s what they found… -Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working -Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease -Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business. -Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel -Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract
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“As part of the enforcement action, the department’s Employment and Training Administration’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification has suspended processing of all permanent labor certification applications filed by, or on behalf of, Cloudera for 180 days.”
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
Eliminating the OPT program would prove to a generation of young Americans that we care about their job prospects, national security, and their tax dollars.
This is an opportunity to show that we act upon what we say.
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Yesterday, Stanford University (@Stanford) filed yet another notice of intent to hire an H-1B Software Developer
Salary: $123,795
Nobody in Silicon Valley was qualified for this job.
Chris Brunet@chrisbrunet
Stanford University (@Stanford) has posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Data Analyst Salary: $80,148 Nobody in California was qualified to analyze this data.
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
The OPT program is one of the biggest scams that we have in our immigration laws.
It allows foreign students on F-1 visas to work entry level jobs in the U.S. for 1-3 years after they graduate and they are exempt from payroll taxes, which means corporations get a large tax break when they hire one over an American citizen.
It was also was never authorized by Congress, but created in 1992 by the DOJ and is maintained by nameless, faceless bureaucrats within the executive branch.
It's long past time for it to end.
Jennie Taer@JennieSTaer
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students “who claim to be working for highly suspect employers” as part of the federal government’s Operational Practical Training program. Here’s what they found… -Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working -Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease -Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business. -Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel -Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract
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For those looking to write letters in support of these types of investigations, please address them to @ICEgov and not DHS at the following address:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
500 12th St., SW
Washington, D.C. 20536
Todd M. Lyons is the Acting Director.
ICE issues MAJOR crackdown on visa fraud: 'TIP OF THE ICEBERG' youtu.be/pJQjefx-_dI?si… via @YouTube
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
The University of Chicago (@UChicago) just filed a notice of intent to hire a Senior Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $118,450
Nobody in America was qualified for this job.
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@USTechWorkers my blind guess based on no evidence is that they are building a case to end the program, but I could be wrong.
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Reminder: The Trump administration has the authority to end the STEM-OPT program through formal rulemaking. The program was created entirely through executive regulation under the Bush and Obama administrations, not by Congress.
Why spend resources chasing fraud in a program that is arguably built on questionable statutory authority, when ending it outright would eliminate the problem at its source?
Jennie Taer@JennieSTaer
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students “who claim to be working for highly suspect employers” as part of the federal government’s Operational Practical Training program. Here’s what they found… -Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working -Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease -Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business. -Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel -Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract
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U.S. Tech Workers retweetledi
This is great -- fraud is endemic in OPT. But why hasn't OPT been cancelled altogether? Not only was it just made up by the executive branch, but it's facially illegal -- student visas are only valid while engaged in a full course of study. More here: cis.org/Jacobs/Whats-P…
Ali Bradley@AliBradleyTV
NEW: “We’ve dramatically expanded our oversight at OPT and can report that we found fraud nationwide…” Acting @ICEgov Director Todd Lyons says they identified more than 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working “for highly suspect employers…” Via USCIS: OPT or Optional Practical Training Extension for STEM Students (STEM OPT) is a 24-month extension of post-completion Optional Practical Training (OPT) for F-1 students with qualifying degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM). It allows eligible students to work in the U.S. for a total of 36 months (12 months of standard OPT + 24 months extension).
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