Rosemary Jenks

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.

That needs to be shut off.

Unfortunately, Congress has to do that, but it needs to be done.

And that would go a long way toward making it so that...

that H1Bs are not, in fact, cheaper than Americans for these employers.

And that's the key.

You have to make hiring a foreign worker more expensive than hiring an American.

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