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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry but coming here on a work visa was never a guarantee of permanent permission to live here.  
I don't understand the people to choose to come here on a visa and then make such a fuss about having to leave when they are laid off.  Yeah - being laid off sucks but he should have clearly known and weighed the consequences before he chose to move her.[/quote]
Consequences? It's not like he committed a crime. There's nothing wrong with coming to this country for a good job and hoping you get to stay. [/quote]

Jobs Lost. How much damage is done to each of these two classes of victims? The problem for recent resident college grads is the loss of jobs. I assume that virtually every job that is now filled by a 12- or a 17-month OPT worker could be filled from the vast number of unemployed residents of this country. (There will be exceptions, of course, if an employer really, really needs a recent forestry sciences graduate with fluent Mongolian the boss may understandably need to hire an OPT worker or an H-1B, but these are rare exceptions to the rule.)

Given these assumptions, a total of something on the order of 430,000 jobs were denied to resident workers because of this program; some 64,000 of these jobs were in the STEM fields. For more on the shrill calls of Silicon Valley that there are skills "shortages" (rather than the plain fact that foreign workers cost less and can be exploited more than American workers), see - http://www.cis.org/PanelTranscripts/STEM-Panel-052014[/quote]

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