US EditionGosar reintroduces bill to end post-graduate work program for foreign students
- Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar reintroduced H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, aiming to terminate the Optional Practical Training program.
- The OPT program allows over 100,000 foreign students to work in the U.S. For up to three years after graduation, which has been criticized as undermining American workers.
- Gosar argues that the OPT program incentivizes businesses to hire cheaper foreign labor instead of American workers, impacting fields such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- NumbersUSA states that the OPT program costs the Social Security and Medicare trust fund $4 billion annually and requires reform to benefit American workers.
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Rep. Gosar introduces “Great Solutions” bill to stop government discounts on hiring foreign workers
On Tuesday, March 25, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) introduced the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act (H.R. 2315) that would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that gives U.S. employers a discount for NOT hiring American workers. The bill is one of NumbersUSA's "Great Solutions" for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress.
Gosar Bill Would Eliminate Program Favoring Foreign Workers Over Americans
Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar is offering for consideration once again legislation that would terminate the Optional Practical Training (OPT) Program which circumvents the H-1B visa cap. Gosar's bill, H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, aims to end the unfair favoring of foreign workers. The Optional Practical Training program is a guest worker program administered...
Stakeholders call bluff on anti-OPT bill
Titled H.R. 2315, the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act, the bill was reintroduced by Gosar, who argued that OPT “undercuts American workers” and lets “greedy businesses hire inexpensive foreign labour” without providing benefits. “Never authorized by Congress, OPT circumvents the H-1B visa cap set by Congress by allowing over 100,000 aliens admitted into our country on student visas to continue working in the United States for another thr…
New "OPT" bill is GREAT SOLUTION to outrageous anti-U.S.-worker program ridiculed in NumbersUSA video
ARLINGTON, Va., March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — NumbersUSA announces its endorsement of the Fairness for High-Skilled Americans Act (H.R. 2315) as one of its “Great Solutions” for fixing immigration policies in the 119th Congress. Introduced this week by Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-09), H.R. 2315 would end the Optional Practical Training program (OPT) that provides incentives for employers to hire foreign students from U.S. colleges instead of American g…
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