White House slammed for foreign student visa program as GOP lawmakers push Supreme Court to step in
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Thirty-one GOP lawmakers submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to take up a case challenging a DHS visa program they say was unconstitutionally devised by bureaucrats.
The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program has become the largest single guest worker program in the country, and was created entirely via regulation. Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
OPT allows foreign students on F-1 visas to work for up to three years after they graduate. Foreign nations in the OPT program are exempted from payroll taxes, effectively giving employers an 8% cost advantage to hiring them over American workers.
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) includes no reference to postgraduate employment for F-1s and unambiguously states that the alien’s sole purpose in the United States is to pursue a course of study.