🚨Today, I sent a letter to @SecMullinDHS urging him to terminate OPT, STEM-OPT, and CPT.

The story of these programs is simple: Big Tech chose to lobby the deep state for foreign labor rather than pay fair wages to Americans.

Here's how it happened. 🧵 Since 1947, government programs have existed to provide foreign students with opportunities to have brief internship-like experiences.

But in 1992, the Bush administration quietly transformed those programs into the modern OPT, allowing foreigners to stay in the US and work for a full year.

There's no federal holiday for Easter — the most important day in the Christian faith.

@SenEricSchmitt and I think that should change. We’ve introduced a bill to make Easter Monday a federal holiday.

Here's why. 🧵 For hundreds of millions of American Christians, Easter isn't just a holiday. It's the central event in all of history.

As Paul wrote: "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain."

But He is risen. And our public calendar should say so.

On March 25, 1634 - 392 years ago today - Catholics fleeing persecution in England landed on St. Clement's Island, Maryland and celebrated the first Mass in the English-speaking Colonies.

Here's their incredible story: 🧵🧵 In 16th and 17th-century England, Catholics faced severe legal penalties for practicing the Faith. Catholics were barred from holding public office, fined for missing Anglican services, and lived under constant suspicion. Henry VIII seized hundreds of monasteries and destroyed Catholic holy sites.

📢 President Trump named Nigeria a CPC due to the horrific persecution of Christians & serious security threats the country faces.

He asked me to lead the investigation. On Monday, I delivered our report to the White House.

@POTUS is reviewing our recommendations. So can you🧵
First, we must be clear about the crisis.

Violence and insecurity in Nigeria affects people of all faiths, but Christians bear the overwhelming brunt of the attacks and have suffered in silence for two decades.

Christians are 5 times more likely to be killed than any other religious group.

Fulani militias and terrorist groups constantly attack Christians: targeting pastors and priests, burning schools and churches, often on holy days.

They have killed tens of thousands.

Nigeria is the deadliest country in the world for Christians and the world stands by silently.

That's why I'm urging @SecRubio to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern to unlock diplomatic levers to protect our brothers and sisters in Christ. 🧵 Since Boko Haram's insurgency in 2009, more than 50,000 Christians have been murdered and more than 5 million have been displaced.

Just this year, a priest was kidnapped and murdered on Ash Wednesday.

54 Christians were martyred on Palm Sunday.

Pope Leo XIV said he chose his name in part because of the encyclical Rerum Novarum, written by Pope Leo XIII 134 years ago today.

Authored at time of social upheaval and rapidly evolving technology, it has much to teach us today.

A 🧵 of the twelve most interesting quotes. “Capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. Mutual agreement results in the beauty of good order, while perpetual conflict necessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity.” [Paragraph 19]

🧵Nearly ***300,000*** Chinese nationals came here on student visas last year!! To no one's surprise, the CCP is exploiting this program for espionage.

I'm proposing an immediate ban on China's access to student visas. My new op-ed in Newsweek⤵️

newsweek.com/congressman-st… "As the Congressional Research Service has shown, the United States cannot accurately flag the espionage-related risk factors of student visa applicants because many who enter the country with pure intentions are later recruited or coerced by the CCP to engage in espionage."