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An IT staffing services firm, with an office in Hyderabad, India, discriminated against qualified Americans for white-collar jobs in favor of foreign workers with the Optional Training Program (OPT), the Department of Justice (DOJ) concludes.

President Trump is reportedly reviewing plans to expand his immigration executive order to halt the massive inflow of foreign visa workers as a pro-American worker grassroots campaign grows. 

College student organizations are asking President Trump to suspend the H-1B visa and OPT programs while nearly 40 million Americans are jobless due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) says President Donald Trump should expand his immigration executive order to suspend the H-1B visa and Optional Practical Training (OPT) programs that bring thousands of white-collar foreign workers to the United States every year to take high-paying American jobs.

A Chinese-American civic group is opposing Sen. Mike Lee’s push to accelerate the inflow of Indian graduates into voting booths, U.S. workplaces, and the Utah economy.

A skewed news report triggered many progressive politicians, activists, and journalists to declare outrage towards the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deportation of more than 200 Indian students — even though the ICE operation was launched under former President Barack Obama to block commonplace fraud against U.S. college graduates.

The Department of Justice has joined with business groups to defend the program which pays investors more than $2 billion in tax breaks for hiring roughly 300,000 foreign graduates instead of recent American counterparts.

Why would the federal government give financial incentives to hire foreign students over American students? It doesn’t make sense, but it is in fact happening. I intend to change this, and I have introduced legislation to do so.

An immigration expert said a government program encourages U.S. employers to hire foreign-born college grads over U.S. citizen graduates.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is echoing talking points from the big business lobby after voting for a green card giveaway plan for an immediate 300,000 Indian workers while supporting Big Tech’s outsourcing business model. 

Fox News host and radio host Sean Hannity slammed the Democrats’ pending jobs giveaway to Indian graduates, which is co-sponsored by roughly 100 GOP legislators.

The U.S. government awarded hundreds of work permits in 2017 to a front company that, according to an FBI statement, trafficked almost 2,000 Chinese graduates into the U.S. white-collar labor market.

The Chinese government has been raiding American university databases for technology which can help it develop undersea warfare technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer is leading a drive to reward 300,000 Indian visa workers for taking college graduate jobs from at least 200,000 young middle aged or older American graduates.

White House aides are asking business groups — including advocates for the Koch network — what they want to include in a wall-for-amnesty immigration deal.

Federal officials excluded the public when they created a program to help U.S. companies hire hundreds of thousands of foreign graduates in place of American graduates, a D.C. Appeals Court judge said February 20.

A group of universities is joining the push for a DACA amnesty because they want to protect the revenue they get by providing white-collar work permits to 330,000 foreign graduate-customers.

A report from an immigration think tank reveals that “fourth-rate purveyors of higher education” are using immigration law to make millions of dollars while tens of thousands of aliens get student visas and work permits from “visa mills.”

A new report for the Student Exchange Visitors Program (SEVP) generated by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows that of the 1.18 million students from foreign countries studying at colleges and universities in the United States 77 percent are from Asia.

The federal government quietly helped companies and universities hire 330,000 cheap foreign graduates during 2016 in place of often-indebted American graduates.

Most native-born American photojournalists have been elbowed out of the Hollywood paparazzi business by an immigration wave of lower-wage, lower-status, illegal-immigrant photojournalists, according to a California academic and media reports.

President Barack Obama’s administration has unveiled a new rule that will allow foreign graduate of U.S. universities to work in white-collar jobs for three or six years.