Rosemary Jenks
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696 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 3 Sep
Rosemary Jenks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, Senator Grassley is exactly right.
The only way, and he didn't actually connect these in his tweet, but the only way that Secretary Luttnick's plan works is if you end OPT because the fee for the $100,000 fee does not apply
to people who are in the country and adjust from one status to another.
And the most common is from OPT to H1B.
So all the Microsofts and Amazons and all of those are going to use that in-country adjustment to avoid the fee.
The only people paying it will be the body shops unless they get rid of OPT.
So OPT stands for Optional Practical Training, and it is a scheme that was cooked up under W. Bush to allow foreign students, once they've graduated, to remain in the United States and take a job.
They don't have to pay FICA taxes.
The employer doesn't have to pay FICA taxes for them, so that's basically a 7.5% discount for employers to hire them over American students.
um and then obama actually expanded the program for stem opt uh to three years instead of one year so these foreign students get three years at an a discount for the employer to essentially find an employer to sponsor them for an h-1b and since they're already in the country they're not going to have to pay this fee
Now, I'm going to step out of bounds here, Steve, and say that I don't actually believe that Secretary Letnick was lying.
I think that he doesn't understand immigration law.
And I think he probably believes everything he said, or at least did.
You know, I don't think that is his intention.
I think the H-1B program needs to be eliminated, full stop.
I think he is trying to make it microscopically better.
But it's not going to work, and it's not going to work because of the complexities of immigration law.
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