Taxpayer-Funded Universities Are Training Foreigners To Take Our Jobs. H1Bs And OPTs Make It Even Worse!

Our universities eagerly accept foreigners because they pay full tuition, and in many cases additional fees...never mind that they are taking spots that have been funded by American taxpayers for American students. The universities also have greater control over foreign students because of their student visas...they will do pretty much what they are told, including teaching undergraduates for very little or no compensation. Of course, many of them don't speak English well enough to be effective instructors, but the universities certainly don't care. They long ago ceased being educators of American youth and have become propagandists for their peculiar ignorant leftism. But that may be a secondary function....most are fanatically fixated on growing their institutions and their endowments, and be damned with the idea of educating Americans!

And our horrid anti-American corporations take advantage of every single employment regulation to maximize their profitability at the expense of the American taxpayer. Should they be allowed to use the law to their advantage? Absolutely! Should our lawmakers change the law so that the employment of Americans is the only goal of the law? Absolutely!

Yes, I despise most of our corporations because they have lost sight of even the most basic pro-American sensibilities. That's why JP Morgan's announcement a few weeks ago of a significant pro-American financial initiative was so welcome, and so surprising. Hopefully it will be the impetus for other American banks and other companies to invest in America and Americans.

Job Prospects for 2026 College Grads to Hit 5-Year Low While Employers Eye AI, Foreign Labor

In 2024 alone, the Biden administration approved work permits for approximately 400,000 foreign college graduates through the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program — a 45 percent increase from 2020 levels under President Trump. Former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joe Edlow and other Trump administration officials have warned that programs like OPT are depressing wages and displacing American graduates, particularly in high-demand STEM and business fields.

The pipeline from foreign student to U.S. worker also begins at the admissions level. Breitbart News opinion contributor Rich Kaye questioned why taxpayer-funded public universities are increasingly filling seats with international students who later convert F-1 student visas into work permits. “When a public university replaces a Georgia student with an F‑1 student in a high‑demand field,” Kaye wrote, “it increases the pipeline pressure tomorrow for H‑1B allocations in exactly the sectors where Americans could be trained to fill roles.”

Will that injure American technological progress? Perhaps, although I doubt it very much. The intellectual pipeline flows mostly one way, and that direction is out of America to the rest of the world. Certainly the panicked CEOs of many corporations will trot out examples -- real or imagined -- where their businesses will be injured by shutting down the supply of foreign labor, but each of those CEOs should be invited to fund American training systems that will generate domestic labor supply. That's what they should have been doing a long time ago.

The function of government is not to protect the profits of corporations. It is to protect the well being of the people. We are long past the time when American business leaders should be taken seriously when they whine about global competitiveness and allowing capital to flow to the most efficient places.

The Trump administration has a year to get this correct...the 2026 mid-term elections are a great unknown, but history suggests a malign result. Do it now, and the American people will thank President Trump, the Republican Party, and the pro-American legislators who pushed back against the globalists!

posted by CBD at 12:00 PM

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