Thread by @SenEricSchmitt

What I've found is staggering.

46,547 OPT workers. 19,285 employers.

New OPT data from California was provided to my office.🧵

Remember, OPT lets foreign students work in jobs directly related to their college major.

STEM gets UP TO 3 YEARS. Employers skip taxes—a 15%+ subsidy.

Cheap foreign labor on steroids, while Americans bear the cost of their own replacement.

This is a jobs heist. While American grads scramble, foreigners flood in.

Big Tech and Silicon Valley are gobbling them up like candy. Thousands and thousands of OPTs.

They fire American workers, then request more foreign workers to cut costs.

But it gets worse.

O2F, Inc. —headquartered in India— has 314 OPTs in California. They brag about their “team of 400.”

Do the math: over 75% foreign students on OPT. An INDIAN company staffing up on AMERICAN college visas. You cannot make this up.

Then there’s “Sayaam For All”

706 OPTs in CA.

A nonprofit dedicated to “volunteer matching across India”, and is supposedly 100% remote/volunteer.

Tax-free, cheap foreign labor + OPT status for students.

California’s woke NGO racket is in full swing too, piling on the OPTs:

• Women of Color on the Move
• Justice & Diversity Center of San Francisco
• International Action Network for Gender Equity
• And innumerable 2SLGBTQIA+ NGOs

All DEI grifts tax-subsidized by OPT workers.

And don’t forget the “college to coffee shop” pipeline:

Gold’s Gym
H Mart
Various Indian restaurants

This has ZERO to do with their “major area of study.”

It’s blatant abuse, plain and simple.

Bottom line: OPT/CPT isn’t practical training, it’s a backdoor jobs program for Big Tech, foreign companies, woke NGOs, and refugee mills at the direct expense of American graduates and workers.

Taxpayer-subsidized replacement. Shut it down. End OPT. Put Americans first.