F-1 visas

Like two ships passing in the night, proponents and opponents of H1-B visas can’t see the forest through the trees. The void of American workers for qualified H‑1B positions was really caused by the ever-increasing scale and relaxed requirements of F‑1 student visas, and universities depending on international enrollment to balance budgets. Admissions at leading public institutions like Georgia Tech have become as competitive as elite private universities, yet a material share of limited undergraduate seats increasingly goes to non‑U.S. students who can pay full tuition and additional fees.

President Donald Trump’s deputies are using federal databases for “continuous vetting” of roughly 55 million foreigners who have visas to visit or live in the United States.

President Donald Trump is suggesting that Harvard University cap the number of foreign students it accepts annually to make room for Americans who want to attend the prestigious Ivy League school.

“Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” the university’s lawsuit against federal enforcement of civil rights laws claims.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio coolly shut down criticisms from liberal Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) during a Senate hearing today.

Pro-immigration lawyers are trying to block President Donald Trump’s policy of canceling education visas held by more than 1,000 migrants, including many who sign tuition checks to get work permits for the jobs needed by American graduates.

A foreign student at Columbia involved in pro-Hamas protests on campus used President Donald Trump’s self-deportation app to leave the U.S.

Illegal migrants have been staging robberies at their own shop and restaurant workplaces to get work permits and the life-changing bonanza of green cards and U.S. citizenship.

The GOP’s newest legislator, Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX), is defending her Thursday vote to help get green cards to the adult children of the Fortune 500’s foreign contract workers and managers, who take jobs and career opportunities from Americans.

Business groups, labor-brokers, and migration advocates are protesting a draft regulation that would open up many thousands of outsourced white-collar jobs to debt-burdened U.S. graduates.

The pool of foreign workers in the United States is falling because fewer foreigners are enrolling at U.S. universities, according to a Bloomberg article that prompted many complaints by business and migration advocates.

A group of 15 House Republicans lobbied President Trump’s administration to reopen a loophole that gives visas to online-only foreign students just as the White House reversed policy to do just that. 

President Trump is receiving praise from the Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers’ network of billionaire organizations — critics of his economic nationalist agenda — after reopening a loophole that will give visas to foreign students taking online classes.

A handful of House Republicans are lobbying to reopen a loophole allowing foreign students to stay in the United States for taking online courses at colleges and universities, Breitbart News has learned. 

The United States Chamber of Commerce is demanding the federal government provide visas to foreign students taking online courses at American colleges and universities. 

Thousands of foreign nationals are reportedly mistakenly receiving $1,200 stimulus checks meant for American citizens struggling through the Chinese coronavirus crisis that has spurred mass unemployment.

China remains the single largest beneficiary of the United States’ various student visa programs — sending more of its young nationals to the U.S. every year than Europe and Africa combined.