They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com - ThreadSky

mclem.org • 13 days ago

They're terminating OPT.

Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US.

6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

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mclem.org•13 days ago

The nominee to head USCIS states that he will terminate Optional Practical Training here, at the 1:44:30 mark.

mclem.org•13 days ago

This is a decision to hobble innovation in the United States, slash our high skill workforce, force out some of the world's best and brightest, and kneecap America's status as a top destination for the world's brightest students.

It is the exact opposite of policy to fuel our future prosperity.

mclem.org•12 days ago

Americans do not want this myopic, self-destructive policy.

Very large majorities of Republicans and Democrats support high skill immigration to the United States.

The program killed by this extremist action is the largest single channel of high skill immigration.

mclem.org•12 days ago

The countless international students that come to the United States *precisely because OPT exists*, particularly STEM students, will simply go elsewhere or stay home.

Those students bring not just their talent and ideas, they massively finance our universities.

mclem.org•12 days ago

I’m old enough to remember, a few months before the election, when the current US president pledged to staple a green card to the diploma of every foreign university graduate in the US.

Killing OPT is literally the exact opposite policy.

mclem.org•12 days ago

It is difficult for a thoughtful person to interpret this announcement as anything other than another part of a coordinated effort to kneecap the entire US university system, which is heavily supported by foreign talent.

trfetzer.com•12 days ago

Don’t you worry that AI may change our notion of „skill“?

mclem.org•12 days ago

That is pretty much the last thing I am worried about at this moment of all-out war on our entire university system.

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