Immigration Expert: Government Program Incentivizes Employers to Discriminate Against Citizen College Grads
by PENNY STARR
BREITBART.COM
23 Aug 2019
David North, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and noted scholar on immigration and its influence on domestic policies, said at the National Press Club this week that a government program cooked up during the George W. Bush administration and put into place through a federal regulation encourages U.S. businesses to hire foreign instead of citizen college graduates.
North also said at the panel discussion, hosted by CIS, that millions of dollars a year is diverted from helping Americans to benefiting F-1 student visa holders and the American companies that hire them.
The students, North said, get to work for one year or more at an American business, and the business that hires them gets a discount under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) protocol that allows them not to pay certain payroll taxes for their non-immigrant, non-citizen employees.
“You shouldn’t take money from America’s elderly, give it to fat cat corporations so that they can discriminate against Americans,” North said. “I don’t think that’s a very good idea.”
Colleges and universities are also eager to accept foreign students because of the money their enrollment brings in, both as students and alumni.
At any given time, experts estimate that more than one million students from foreign countries are studying in the United States.
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