THANK YOU @ChuckGrassley.

STEM OPT is an ILLEGALLY created program that should not be expanded by every admin at the whim of the cheap labor lobby.

If Congress wanted to give out 200K guestworker visas annually, they would have passed a law!

law360.com/immigration/ar…
@ChuckGrassley #Business and #journalism are unequivocally not "STEM" fields. Berkeley and NYU are simply desperate for international students to pay inflated tuition.
@ChuckGrassley There is no STEM worker shortage in these fields! BLS doesn't even keep statistics on the number of "anthrozoology" jobs. The only reason to classify them as STEM is to justify importing more international students for greedy universities.
Grassley is right to question how a degree gets added to the STEM list. DHS has all the appearances of a corrupt organization run by a known corrupt individual, @SecMayorkas.

@doug_rand and @USCISDirector should NOT have expanded STEM OPT in a way that violates APA.
@SecMayorkas @doug_rand @USCISDirector WCWOA submitted a formal request to remove every one of these degrees from the STEM list. SEVP sent us an automated reply explaining how we can ADD a degree. 🙄

This is an unserious agency run by individuals who got in via the swamp revolving door.

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More from @WCWOA

Feb 22
⚖️ ITServe Alliance vs DHS ⚖️

Reading the ruling in this case issued on 2/17, the judge completely slammed @ITServeorg for being wrong about almost every single aspect of the case.
ITServe's case revolves around one of their H1B dependent bodyshops (Saxon Global) which argues they must be allowed to bench their workers and shuffle them around the country without doing any paperwork or paying any fees that hurt their bottom line.
Saxon Global was BAILED OUT by we, the federal taxpayer, to the tune of $2 million dollars. Their "loan" was forgiven which means they don't have to pay back a single cent. And they say they can't afford to pay USCIS a measly couple of bucks... 🙄

indiaincblog.com/2020/08/10/sax…
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Feb 20
HAHAHA. Hyderabad IT mafia front @ITServeorg takes a loss in court. Score a point for American workers...

law360.com/articles/14667…
@ITServeorg The judge in this case Trevor McFadden is a Trump appointed federal judge. We sincerely hope this judge stays in the DC district court for a long time and issues more rulings like that that benefit Americans, NOT Hyderabad gangsters... Image
@ITServeorg The @USChamber is also affected by this ruling, as they are squarely in the corner of #h1b dependent BODYSHOPS. Somewhere @SuzanneUSCC is crying in whatever mansion she can afford on her $250k salary to beg for DOUBLING guestworkers visas.

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Feb 20
👀 MUST READ article from @NeilMunroDC.

Biden hasn't just opened the floodgates, he's detonated the entire dam. 👇

breitbart.com/politics/2022/… via @BreitbartNews
@NeilMunroDC @BreitbartNews "White-Collar American graduates are going to be filing bankruptcy on their student loans." -@jackjaypalmer

Thanks for nothing @POTUS. Don't do our kids any favors. They are the FUTURE of America and you would rather gift it to foreign scabs to please your corporate donors.
Indian workers are occupying FOUR JOBS EACH. One for themselves and three for other scabs illegally working on tourist visas. Image
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Jan 30
⚖️ H1B Lottery lawsuit ⚖️

Yesterday plaintiffs submitted their reply to DHS and ITServe's motions for summary judgment, and included exhibits showing DHS was warned about abuse of the #h1blottery electronic registration system. 🧵
Compete America warned about "flooding the system" with duplicate registrations. They predicted good faith users would be harmed and trust in the lottery system would erode.

regulations.gov/comment/USCIS-…
Information Technology Industry Council expressed the same concerns about flooding the system with phony applications and asked USCIS to clarify how they planned to prevent fraud.

regulations.gov/comment/USCIS-…
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Jan 29
Unsealed FBI interviews with the governor of Vermont!

"Shumlin told federal investigators last April the EB-5 fraud perpetrated at Jay Peak and in Newport was a "huge embarrassment" to him and his administration."
burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/202…
"Shumlin told investigators he took two EB-5-related trips, one to Miami and one to Asia. The Miami event was an EB-5 convention... He had dinner there with Quiros, Kelly and Douglas Hulme, a British national who owned Rapid Visas, a visa processing firm in Florida."
"Shumlin's team would visit project sites and see hundreds of hard hats," investigators wrote. "People at the state thought that the jobs problem in the NEK had finally been solved. Even @BernieSanders showed up at an event."
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Jan 25
This is why the H-1B visa is not popular for hiring lawyers. If you treat them as indentured servants (i.e. using the visa as it was designed), they can turn around and sue you.

law360.com/immigration/ar…
Sound familiar? Thanks to dual intent, employers can get away with abuses because employees are holding out hope for a green card and will put up with a lot. The #h1b visa is EVIL in so many ways. Reform it or end it @SenatorDurbin @ChuckGrassley @RepJimBanks.
@SenatorDurbin @ChuckGrassley @RepJimBanks This is how #h1b is used to undercut wages. Prevailing wage for lawyer in Chicago is $71k. They paid this woman $55k. This is a perfect case study why we need to issue the H-1B wage rule @SecMartyWalsh @USDOL @POTUS to protect workers and prevent wage abuses.
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