• MEDIA: Government Overhaul Must End OPT

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 17 12:20:36 2025
    InstituteForSoundPublicPolicy.ORG's Joe Guzzardi on whether James
    Braid advises Donald Trump to pick his 2026 endorsements based on
    their support for Paul Gosar's HR 2315: <URL:https://joeguzzardi.substack.com/p/government-overhaul-must-end-opt>
    | Finally, frustrated that employers could not get a congressionally
    | approved cap increase, Microsoft lobbyist Jack Krumholtz met with
    | Chertoff to lean on the DHS secretary for help in what he alleged
    | was an H-1B visa shortage. Krumholtz pressed Chertoff for an OPT
    | increase; his idea was to extend the length of existing practical
    | training regulations so they could function as a new guest worker
    | program that would help employers get around H-1B regulations.
    | Months later, Chertoff's DHS published a rule extending STEM OPT to
    | 29 months with a further 2016 extension to 36 months. DHS, in its
    | own words, confirmed that the OPT extension was a way to circumvent
    | Congress' cap on H-1Bs, a policy explicitly implemented to protect
    | American workers and students. OPT authorizations, unlike H-1Bs, are
    | uncapped.

    Did NeverBackDown.ORG's Ken Cuccinelli and Steve Cortes advise Casey
    DeSantis to dispatch Ron to David McIntosh's ClubForGrowth.ORG to plead
    for go-ahead to deploy the likes of John Miano onto Lachlan Murdoch's FoxNews.COM to impeach Trump for slow-walking IRLI.ORG's lawsuits to
    end the extralegal OPT and H-4EAD programs?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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    "So for Amazon, "Diversity Is Our Strength" really means "Diversity
    Is How We Keep Out Unions". Appalling. Here's the piece in Vox's The
    Verge: https://theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228324/amazon-whole-foods- unionization-heat-map-union" - Mark Krikorian <URL:https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1253545416840359941>

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