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graduates for many of the
The advisers quickly Fortune 500 jobs needed by
blocked a similar reform that U.S. graduates.
was promised by Trump on
April 20. “A lot could The draft change would
change,” Siskind told a eliminate the three-year
Facebook audience. work permit given to foreign
g r a d u a t e s w h o g e t
O v e r a l l , c o m p a n i e s technology jobs, said
employ roughly 1.3 million Siskind.
white-collar vias workers
i n s t e a d o f A m e r i c a n The OPT and CPT work
graduates. The huge programs were created
population also allows mainly by prior presidents,
subcontractors to import not Congress. They offer tax
and hide a large population year). This proclamation the inflow of workers for jobs incentives to companies that
of illegal immigrant white- proposes to impact high- as camp counselors, move jobs and wealth from
skilled individuals outside interns, and trainees, said
collar workers for gig work heartland states to the
with Fortune 500 firms. the U.S. seeking to enter on Siskind. wealthy coastal states,
H-1B and L-1 visas, as well which are dominated by
Business groups strongly a s H - 2 B t e m p o r a r y The policy likely will not Democrats and their elite
support the visa worker seasonal workers and stop the hiring of foreign business allies.
programs for both financial certain J-1 exchange visitor laboratory workers under
and management reasons. participants. the J-1 program, despite Cheap labor is important
massive underemployment for investors because it
The flood of extra workers · The proclamation by U.S. biology graduates. helps cut payroll costs and
helps raise stock values by purports to announce a raises profits, so boosting
dropping the nationwide temporary ban on non- The biggest change, Kuck apparent values on Wall
price of professional skills, immigrant worker entries but s a i d , w o u l d b e t h e Street.
e s p e c i a l l y a m o n g will NOT announce or withdrawal of President
subcontractors. It also describe other substantive Barack Obama's decision to The Executive Order
delivers a compliant and policy changes that we provide work permits to the would limit the ability of
disposable white-collar expect will follow in spouses of Indian H-1B I n d i a n o u t s o u r c i n g
labor force to the coastal draconion regulatory employes who are waiting companies to provide gig
executives at Fortune 500 proposals. for the delivery of approved workers for Fortune 500
companies and many g r e e n c a r d s . T h a t firms and likely force
healthcare companies. This · The proclamation population includes at least companies to raise salary
gig worker labor force of will have a number of 100,000 spouses, many of levels, said Siskind. The
modestly skilled workers exceptions, supposedly whom have been hired by limits would be set by
minimizes the need for to be announced by Indian managers for entry- n a r r o w i n g t h e l e g a l
agency guidance. level software jobs in
executives to hire and definition of jobs that can be
manage independent Fortune 500 jobs. “The BIG done by H-1B workers and
American professionals. · The proclamation C H A N G E w o u l d b e by raising the salary
will likely come the last publication, at last, of the requirements, he said.
two weeks in June, but it regulation rescinding the H-
But the executives'
discriminatory exclusion of could be as early as June 4 s p o u s a l w o r k “ N o t h i n g h a s b e e n
1 5 . T h e A p r i l 2 2 authorization rule,” he
American graduates and determined or issued yet,”
professionals also shrivels proclamation temporarily wrote. said a tweeted warning from
the innovation needed by suspending immigrant Andrew Moriarty, the deputy
the nation to counter the visa entries stated that the “It's got to go to court director federal policy for
g r o w i n g t h r e a t f r o m 50th day thereafter (June immediately,” Siskind said. FWD.us. He continued:
g o v e r n m e n t - b a c k e d 12) would mark the
Chinese companies. This expected timeline for The reform will not deal OPT is still intact, and the
exclusion is also creating an deciding if the terms of with TN, B-1, O-1, or the E Admin will need to do real
increasing population of that proclamation should visas, said Siskind. Those work to dismantle this critical
educated but downwardly be extended or modified visas may provide a program. But anti-immigrant
mobile and alienated young t o i n c l u d e n o n - workaround for people advocates have targeted
men and women. immigrants. seeking jobs, he said. OPT for years, and the
threat is real.
· Separately, the The possible cutback of
Siskind's description
matched a statement by administration envisions the Optional Practical The review process was
another immigration lawyer, a series of rule-makings, Training (OPT) program is launched on April 22, when
Charles Kuck. Kuck posted: beginning perhaps as the primary concern for Trump announced modest
early as July, on H-1B, FWD.us, the advocacy curbs on legal immigration.
· T h e r u m o r e d OPT, and H-4. group created by Mark
Presidential proclamation Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Trump's polls are shaky
would temporarily suspend The J-1 program imports other wealthy West Coast going into the 2020 election,
entry of certain non- roughly 100,000 seasonal Investors. The OPT, and the pressuring him to revive and
immigrant workers for a workers for resorts, hotels, parallel Curricular Practical i m p l e m e n t h i s 2 0 1 6
and vacation camps. The Training (CPT) program,
period that might be as long promises. Polls suggest that
as 180 days (through the order will stop the Summer annually provides up to the proposal is likely very
election and end of the Work Travel program and 500,000 work permits to popular.
