Imported Degrees, Exported Jobs: How America’s Student Visa System Became a Foreign Labor Pipeline

Imported Degrees, Exported Jobs: How America’s Student Visa System Became a Foreign Labor Pipeline

(WND)—Originally intended to support academic exchange, U.S. student visa programs have gradually been expanded and transformed into large-scale foreign labor channels, all to the detriment of multitudes of American workers. Since the 1990s, changes to the international student F-1 visa framework and the introduction of Optional Practical Training, or OPT, have enabled hundreds of thousands of international graduates to enter the American workfo…

Imported degrees, exported jobs: How America's student visa system became a foreign labor pipeline * WorldNetDaily * by Amanda Bartolotta

WASHINGTON – Originally intended to support academic exchange, U.S. student visa programs have gradually been expanded and transformed into large-scale foreign labor channels, all to the detriment of multitudes of American workers. Since the 1990s, changes to the international student F-1 visa framework and the introduction of Optional Practical Training, or OPT, have enabled hundreds of thousands of international graduates to enter the American…