Immigration Law

PROTECTIONISTS FILE SUIT TO BLOCK OPT LAW

By Greg Siskind

The anti-immigrant Programmers Guild filed a suit to overturn the recently released regulation allowing F-1 students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields to seek extensions of their employment authorization for 17 months claiming the Bush Administration lacked authorization to issue the rule. If the folks pushing frivolous bills like this focused as much attention on trying to promote STEM education to America's youth, perhaps we would not be getting creamed by so many other countries. Holding a gun to employers' heads and trying to prevent them from hiring the workers they feel are best suited to keep them competitive will only accelerate the outsourcing of jobs. Those who say otherwise are in denial.

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).