Rosemary Jenks
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696 appearances
13 recordings
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 3 Sep
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In terms of getting immigration legislation, we're just not there yet with Congress.
And you're absolutely right.
It's because of the donors.
You know, there are members of Congress whose own children are in tech fields, have graduated with STEM degrees, and they can't find jobs.
So the message is getting through, but they still need the cash for reelection campaigns.
We have got to defeat the message of the donors.
And the way we do that is constant pressure on members of Congress.
If you look at our website, iapaction.com, you can find out, as Steve said, exactly where your member of Congress, both the House and the Senate, stands on immigration issues.
It is a ranking system based essentially on sports rankings that tells you everything you need to know about what your member of Congress believes or doesn't believe and is willing to stand up for or not.
And they need encouragement when they do good things.
And they need to be held accountable when they do stupid things because, unfortunately, it's the stupid things that tend to prevail.
Well, first of all, we absolutely must get rid of the OPT program, the Optional Practical Training, because that is the pipeline that goes directly from our universities that carries foreign students to these tech jobs and gives the employers a tax break to hire the foreign students instead of American graduates, and then they go straight into the H-1B.
So if we break that pipeline,
we can essentially prevent more, it won't be full scale, but we can prevent more people from getting to the H-1B system because the employers won't know about them because they haven't hired them as OPT students.
So that's one major thing.
This study that I referred to, the Borja study, actually looked at the president's $100,000 fee and said, that's not enough.
to disincentivize employers from hiring H-1Bs because they save so much money.
And one of the reasons they save so much money with this 30% discount in wages is because they can keep the H-1B indefinitely.
You know, it's supposed to be a three-year visa that's renewable once.
Instead, they're staying here for 40, 50 years because the employers sponsor them for a green card.
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