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Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule (computerworld.com)
theodp writes: Computerworld reports that the comments are in on the Department of Homeland Security's new proposed rule to extend OPT for international STEM students from 29 months to at least 36 months. The majority of the comments received by DHS support extending the program, CW notes, which is probably not surprising. Rather than choosing to "avoid the appearance of improper influence" by declining to respond to a "We the People" petition protesting a pending U.S. Federal judge's ruling that threatens to eliminate OPT STEM extensions altogether in February, the White House informed the 100k petition signers that they had the President's support, and pointed to the comment site for the proposed DHS OPT STEM rule workaround. Like the "We the People" petitioners, it's unclear whether the DHS commenters might represent corporate, university, and/or student interests, although a word cloud of the top 100 names of commenters (which accounted for 17,000+ comments) hints that international students are well-represented. By the way, in rejecting the 'emergency changes' that were enacted by DHS in 2008 to extend OPT for STEM students without public comment, Judge Ellen Huvelle said, "the 17-month duration of the STEM extension appears to have been adopted directly from the unanimous suggestions by Microsoft and similar industry groups."
Fine if that is the case convince your law makers or get ones elected who agree with you. Once again this is typical of leftist types, don't like the rule of law just ignore it. That is not how this country works. The law was written, there was a dispute over its interpretation it went to court and the Administration LOST.
Its amazing how when right right leaning politician wants to do something like keep poorly vetted refuges out of their state, or not let someone who could be a carrier of known to be highly communicable and deadly disease just go wherever they like, suddenly the like, or some kid who happens to be tan in color ignore his teachers and wounder around a school with something that looks dangers, you people are quick to use the law to railroad everyone who resists into compliance.
When a judge rules against you though you just ignore it and carry on business as usually. When you have a law on the books that you barely got passed via parliamentary games, that has SPECIFIC dates when things are supposed to go into effect, oops time for extensions and rewriting it on the fly legality be damned.
You don't get to have it both ways. We either have laws and follow our process or we have mob rule. We seem to be erring toward mob rule.
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Good, that is a start
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"Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule" - what does that mean?
You gotta drive down salaries and benefits somehow.
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When a judge rules against you though you just ignore it and carry on business as usually.
What are you talking about? From what I read in the links, the judge ruled that the government did not properly provide a public notice and comment period before enacting the extension. The judge gave the government six months to apply the extension again, but with a public notice and comment period. The government has now done that, the comments were overwhelmingly in favor of the extension, and now the extension will be applied again.
No one is bypassing any rules. A mistake in process was made, and it has now been fixed. This is our judicial system and lawmaking system working well together to enact important changes.
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Because STEM students clearly have those rare skills that can only be found in the US? How about we just fix the H1B enforcement
No Potsy we don't need more STEM students. We have plenty of STEM graduates; 1 out of 3 graduates finds a job. There's not shortage. This only seeks to undermine US workforce.
No problem. A STEM OPT rule is a payback from Congress to the rich and powerful higher education lobby here in the United States that allows colleges and universities to subsidize their bloated budgets by enrolling lots of smart and motivated foreigners as full tuition paying students, letting said students work in the US without a HB1 Visa while in school. However, in order to not violate the equally rich and powerful protectionist lobbies, the STEM OPT rules have a limited duration.
So, we educate and train these individuals and then kick the ones who cannot afford a good immigration lawyer (another equally rich and powerful lobby) out of the country, subsidizing the IT industries in their homelands and perpetuating the drive to outsource high tech labor outside of the US.
It's a brilliant strategy that relies on central planning over free markets to control the distribution of human resources.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Uh, whut? 1 out of 3 STEM grads finds a job? That isn't true. Many STEM graduates just don't go into STEM jobs. That is OK. It isn't because there isn't enough jobs for them: it just means that they have better opportunities outside of STEM. People hold STEM degree holders in high regard, and thus they have many non-STEM opportunities. Even outside of STEM, most graduates aren't holding jobs in their degree field. This is normal.
for the 1%.
Table-ized A.I.
Once again this is typical of leftist types, don't like the rule of law just ignore it.
You mean like Bush did with torturing people?
Its amazing how when right right leaning politician wants to do something like keep poorly vetted refuges out of their state
You mean when a right leaning politician wants to pander to his racist and xenophobic base to get re-elected?
or some kid who happens to be tan in color ignore his teachers and wounder around a school with something that looks dangers
"Happens to be tan in color"? Is that how we're being racist now? Pretending that the color of his skin didn't play any role in calling the cops? Next you'll be telling me that cops don't arrest black people disproportionately or that brown people don't get their luggage searched more often than white people.
Optional Training Program (OPT)
Funny how there is such fanatic concern about vetting refugees (even 24 months is too short for some), but when it comes to indentured servants yielding greater corporate profits, FAST TRACK AND EXTEND.
Where did you get the idea that the Syrian refugees to the U.S. were poorly vetted? It takes the Feds about 2 years to vet one and that's using FBI and military databases as well as European databases. They are properly vetted, stop repeating Republican talking points from T.V., it is bad for you.
In mine the protectionist lobby is completely impotent. It died with Unions when manufacturing went overseas to escape environmental, safety and minimum wage laws...
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While I agree that acronyms, regardless of how popular and well known they should be, should be spelled out in summary’s, any moronically incompetent moron should know that OPT, by and of itself, can have a multitude of meanings, STEM OPT, however, has but one.
Learn to Google, or get the fuck off the internet.
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How helpful. You flamed him without bothering to actually ANSWER HIS QUESTION - while claiming the answer was obvious and easy to find.
If you actually HAVE the answer, adding it to the "helpful" "how to make this clock" flame would have been a friendly gesture.
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Simply require that H-1B visa holders must be paid at least the 90th percentile (or 95th if you like) wage for their field.
Plus any amount that the employer would have to pay into a government entitlement program for a US employee that he doesn't need to pay into said program for a foreigner on H1B (or other work visa systems).
It's even fair. If the program is, say, a retirement program that the visiting worker can't benefit from, shouldn't he have the money to buy a replacement for it elsewhere?
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It's done for the hiring of potential PhD Professors, too.
Universities, unable to make discerning decisions on who is the best candidate for a tenure-track position (hint: laziness), just go for the cheapest of the lot of those that seem "kind of good enough."
As support, I offer that Community Colleges (good things) pay about 2x–3x the rate for Lecturing as local Universities do. They pay you as a contractor, as do Unis, but with the understanding that this means that you have to procure your own health care, and so on. The Community Colleges also provide, typically here, 1.5 hours of prep/grading time per "hour of contact" time. That's a 2.5x pay multiplier!
Back at the major University, you get no allowance for prep time, and only a "straight %-of-time salary" for the course. If you are a Lecturer, and you are trying to improve the reputation of your University, then please, please, please, take a close look at the numbers! Your employer not care. They only want the class taught for cheap!
In fact, you will probably find, as I did, that your TA gets a larger monthly stipend than your salary, on top of his/her tuition. Well, so after you come to that realization, if you have the sense avoid picking up more Lecturing gigs at the Uni, you will also learn that your State's Unemployment Insurance pays better than your teaching gig did!
That's right folks, the State, in its Wisdom, will pay you (we) 'over-educated PhDs' more money to lie on the couch at home than to actually do what would benefit the State – educating our youth (which is probably what you had wished to do to earn a living, way back when you chose the PhD path)!
BTW, I have refused, starting two years ago, to teach undergraduate or even graduate-level classes at my top-10 University as a Lecturer.
The kids deserve to get what they pay for, of course. But I will die of starvation before making the Regents rich just because I have societal principles. I have other principles, too. Y'know, like not being a wage-slave, despite being qualified above my peers (of ~same age) who are tenured, and just dump teaching duties onto their TAs.
America is getting what America is asking for. And anyway; I find Community College students far more receptive to, and eager-to-learn, when they get a skilled educator than the "top-uni" kids — those twits only care whether they're getting an A vs. an A–, and little about the content.
It was very easy to find. Since you and he both seem to be too lazy to interenet properly, let me help.
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