Under OPT, employers enjoy:
-No requirements to pay the prevailing wage
-No requirements to protect domestic workers.
Sold as a "practical training" program, OPT offers financial incentives to bypass the American workforce.
OPT was created to give foreign students extra tools to help their home countries but is more often used to get around the H-1B cap (Microsoft pitched the idea of using OPT to get around the H-1B cap to DHS Secretary Chertoff over dinner).
Jun 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Biden has embraced G.W. Bush's immigration approach: matching U.S. employers with "any willing worker"in the world. nytimes.com/2021/05/31/us/…
The changes in this blueprint would not all require legislation, but they would move the country closer to the immigration system Biden proposed in his immigration bill
Sep 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
On Labor Day, thinking about Vernon Briggs: "The treatment of the African-American population is a national blemish of the highest order, and every policy ought to be judged on the following criteria: that it does no harm to the African-American population."
I hope we can reject that notion that a tighter immigration policy would pit Blacks against immigrants, and recognize that recent immigrants & their children are often helped even more by immigration policies that would also help move low-income Blacks into the middle class.
Jun 24, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"A more equitable society requires a willingness to pay a little more for the burger or the bicycle — and for the welfare of the Americans who make and sell those products." Americans are willing. nytimes.com/2020/06/24/opi…
"In the nation’s slaughterhouses, the average worker in 1982 made $24 an hour in inflation-adjusted dollars, or $50,000 a year. Today the average meatpacker processes significantly more meat — and makes less than $14 an hour." IOW, no job Americans won't do if offered decent wage
Feb 8, 2019 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
A quick thread on why overall apprehension numbers distract from the real problem: The rise since 2014 of unaccompanied minors and family units that is crippling the system.
While overall apprehensions are about "average," the numbers of unaccompanied minors and family units are way up. That's the crisis. When it was mostly single males from Mexico, they could be turned around. But the law doesn't allow that when it's Central Americans with children.
Feb 8, 2019 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
AP has totally lost it. This isn't a fact check. This is an op-ed with cherry-picked arguments presented them as if they are "settled science." This is a polemic. apnews.com/7eb07814117f46…
"MYTH: VAST NUMBERS OF IMMIGRANTS ARE POURING ACROSS U.S. BORDERS" -- AP basically says as long as the number is about average there is no problem and that you can't say the numbers are a lot. Well, that is an opinion.
