U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently released its annual report on the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). The report – which gathered its data from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – gives detai…
optional practical training
The largest guest-worker program in America’s immigration system is getting bigger. Skirting regulatory processes, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last month that even more jobs will be open to foreign nationals through Optional Pra…
A fraud-prone employment program involving nearly a half-million foreign students is enjoying a free ride these days. Days after taking office, President Joe Biden aborted efforts to step up regulation of the government’s little known and largely unsup…
Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) recently introduced the Responsible Practical Training Act, a bill that aims to reform the controversial and FAIR-opposed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. A part of the larger F-1 student visa program,…
Less than two weeks after it created, a federal office tasked to track a fraud-ridden foreign student work program has been closed. The Optional Practical Training (OPT) Employment Compliance Unit was set up Jan. 13 with orders to report on the duties,…
At an October 21 press conference, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the arrest of 15 foreign student-workers for fraudulently claiming to be working for companies that did not exist. In addition, as many as 1,100 foreign nation…
In the strongest action yet against a rapidly expanding migrant work program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is deporting or refusing readmission to 4,600 former foreign students for their use of fraudulent documents. DHS said the students, …
News about stimulus cash “mistakenly” being dispensed to non-resident aliens is another black eye for a shadowy foreign student work program that’s costing America billions of dollars a year. Politico reports that the Internal Revenue Service improperl…
It’s no secret that the mainstream media has abandoned all pretense of objectivity in its coverage of immigration matters. Nevertheless, the lengths to which open-borders-leaning publications will go to distort the truth are still shocking. Forbes rece…