Recent news reports indicated that Trump had agreed to admit up to 600,000 Chinese students, which I posted about last week. Breitbart is now reporting that "Trump Deputies Curb Student Visas, SInk ‘600,000 Chinese’ Claim." The main focus of the story is that the Administration is are capping foreign student visas to just 4 years.
The new rule will make it harder for foreigners — mostly Indians — to hopscotch their way from job to job to green cards via various college courses and President George Bush’s huge Optional Practical Training work permit program.
The modest curbs are good news for American graduates and their parents.
The changes were denounced by pro-migration groups, especially by pro-Indian advocates. “The most brutal I’ve seen … over the last 40 years,” claimed one Indian advocate. “The new F1 rules effectively closes the F1 [to] H1B [program] pipeline,” lamented one Indian advocate.
The F-1 visa currently has no expiration date. That quirk allows young foreigners to snag short-term work permits by paying tuition to colleges. In turn, they use the work permits to jump from one white-collar job to another, often via co-ethnic hiring networks.
Many of the migrants take the low-salaried jobs because they are seeking permanent legal status — and are willing to push many American youths out of university slots and American graduates out of career-track professional jobs.
Unbelievable. No expiration; allowed to take jobs from Americans. Exactly what I would expect from a Bush.
As for the backlash against the reports of allowing 600,000 Chinese students into the country, the Administration "clarified" that Trump wasn't suggesting an increase of the number of Chinese students per year, but was discussing the number over a two year period, which would be about the number currently being allowed into the country. That still means 300,000 per year of which, as I noted the other day, at least 18% are acting as spies.
And speaking of governments walking back immigration deals, after news that Japan might have reached agreements with several African countries to import workers from those countries, public outcry in Japan forced the government to clarify that "its 'African Hometown” program is not a backdoor scheme to set up mass migration from Africa to Japan." The article notes that despite its demographic crises, the Japanese public remains strongly opposed to mass immigration, which apparently is deeply disappointing to globalists in Europe: "the left-wing UK Guardian rushed to denounce the Japanese public as 'xenophobic' for their 'ugly backlash' against migration."
How about zero?
ReplyDeleteThat would make the universities scream since the Chinese students probably pay full sticker price.
DeleteChinese are a known national security risk. I think the Indians will become recognized as a national security risk as they continue to monopolize IT departments and become the ones managing critical infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteWhile not receiving the attention that China does, India also has engaged in stealing valuable technology including satellite and space technology.
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