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Elon Musk and other Fortune 500 CEOs are firing thousands of their tech workers -- but few of the many foreign visa workers on their payrolls.

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New Biden Move Hurts Tech Workers, Recent College Grads by Joe Guzzardi, May 21, 2021 Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor announced an 18-month delay in the effective date of the final rule, “Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States,” mostly foreign nationals working on employment-based visas. The final rule, originally published in January 2021, will now become effective on November 14, 2022. The greater likelihood, however, is that the rule will be delayed again or totally ignored. The Department of Labor's offic...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Optional Practical Training Program for F-1 students (OPT) is not illegal, a federal judge has ruled in a case brought by Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (Washtech), a union representing workers in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Criticism of OPT; Increased Scrutiny Despite evidence that OPT is good for the economy and does not limit job opportunities for U.S. workers, opponents have questioned the program for years. In 2012, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) asked the Government Accountability Office ...