11 Years and Counting for Lawsuit Challenging OPT Guestworker Program
Charles Dickens, call your office
By John Miano on May 28, 2019
Challenges to President Trump’s various administrative actions have been flying through the courts at SR-71 speed. However, not all similar cases go through the courts on overdrive.
This Thursday, May 29, will mark the eleventh anniversary of the start of the litigation challenging whether the OPT (Optional Practical Training) program is within DHS authority.
DHS created the OPT program through regulation, with no directive from Congress. OPT allows aliens to work for years after graduation on student visas. (And both the employed "students" and their employers are exempt from the payroll taxes everyone else has to pay.) Measured in workers per year, OPT is now the largest guestworker program in the immigration system – yet it was never enacted by Congress.
https://cis.org/Miano/11-Years-and-Counting-Lawsuit-Challenging-OPT-Guestworker-Program
