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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Employers don't have to pay social security or medicare for that employee so that means they save 8% for each worker under OPT.  Nearly 540,000 foreign nationals hold jobs in the U.S. without any FICA taxes taken out of their paychecks. This is costing the US billions and causing employers to give preference to foreign nationals over Americans.

At a minimum employers should be made to pay employment taxes.

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There is so much that can be done.   I don’t understand why Democrats are not leading the charge to stop the replacement of US citizens with cheap foreign labor .

We all know republicans are evil and will exploit workers, but what happened to Democrats?   Why are they not repealing h1b and repealing OPT or doing something to fix these programs that hurt US citizens?

I constantly contact my reps , was Connolly, and he was the worst.   He advocated FOR h1b and OPT.   The emails I would receive from him talked about how the US needs skilled labor.  He was completely clueless.[/quote]

Now, I hear about recent US STEM college grads not landing jobs and older US workers losing jobs. But has that always been the case? I thought there was a long period of time when US grads were not sufficient to meet tech company needs. Lots of people were trying to encourage more US students to go into those stem majors. Not saying policies should be as they have been - companies are certainly taking advantage of low wages and exploitable foreign workers, at the expense of US workers. But there is some reason we got here in the first place. [/quote]

Yes, the Visa system has been cooked by immigration lawyers and executive orders.  There are people that are perpetually on the H-1b visa, because they don't have to do labor conditional searches to prove that the market is available.  EG thought it is a "temporary visa" in practice they never go home.  In a number of high-profile cases DOJ v Apple and DOJ v Meta.  They showed that there were plenty of skilled American applicants.  The companies were going out of their way to hide the market searches from skilled applicants.  The other is that immigrants also run our STEM universities, and they do a poor job of transferring knowledge and promoting Americans that take their courses.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-25-million-landmark-agreement-apple-resolve-employment

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-labor-departments-reach-settlements-facebook-resolving-claims-discrimination-against

So, the claims by American Tech executives are patently false.

Meta claimed this was the standard in the industry and you can easily go to the Washington post and search for all the jobs that have "snail mail" requirements.  You can also go to your local unemployment site.  EG Maryland Workforce Exchange and search for foreign LCA (they hide it you have to enable preferred employers only search in the advanced section).

https://classifiedsmarketplace.washingtonpost.com/marketplace//advert/computer-programmer-recruitment_718

Politically the problem is that the labor certifications are distributed across at least three agencies.  DHS, USCIS, DOL and they are all corrupt.  The DOJ started these cases under Trump, but the Biden admin let them off with a slap on the wrist and a settlement.  All someone at the DOL, DHS and USCIS would have to do is require that these jobs get posted like every other recruiting eg on a popular job site like Indeed and on the companies, public facing and sophisticated job sites.  But the agencies are all looking the other way, though there is hard evidence the programs are not functioning as promised.

Once an H1b always an H1b.

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