New ICE Unit Will Track OPT Program Abuse
But media yet again fails to acknowledge subsidies for hiring foreign 'students' over Americans
By David North on January 16, 2021
Suppose there is a federal program that gives employers billions a year to hire foreign college grads, rather than citizen ones. These subsidies of about 8.25 percent of payroll are never given to employers who hire citizen college grads. Do you suppose that the media would notice?
The answer, yet again, is "No." In a recent article, Law360 (like many other media outlets) failed to mention the massive subsidies for employers who hire alien college grads rather than citizen ones in the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.
While this omission is discouraging, the reason why this matter came up again is encouraging, but about four years late.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has finally announced that it will "establish a new unit to report on the status of the Optional Practical Training program for foreign students to investigate claims of misuse."
https://cis.org/North/New-ICE-Unit-Will-Track-OPT-Program-Abuse
