New Foreign Pirate Pillaging Operation Uncovered: 10,000 Foreign Students "Working" at Fraudulent Jobs Created by Fraudulent "Employers"

Why the hell would we be paying foreign students to work, anyway? Why on earth would we be subsidizing foreigners to come here?

Pay full freight or go home. Better yet, go home whether you're paying full freight or not.

Correction: I assumed the taxpayers were paying the salaries of these fake "workers." But I haven't seen anyone say that and now believe this is simply a scheme to remain in the country beyond the limits of one's student visa.

I'll try to find out if government money is being used to pay these "workers," but for now, I'm rewriting the post to remove my claims about that.

The fraud concerns a program called Optional Practical Training, which involves foreign students "working" in "jobs" allegedly related to the fields they're training for.

Google's AI digest:

Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary work authorization for F-1 visa students in the U.S. to gain hands-on experience directly related to their major field of study.

It typically offers 12 months of employment, either pre- or post-completion of studies, with a 24-month extension available for STEM majors.

So if there's a fraudulent student "worker," he gets 12 months of extra time in the US or possibly 36 months if he's learning how to build bombs for terrorist organizations, or how to smuggle Chinese bioweapon specimens into the US. I assume that's what STEM means in this situation.

Key Aspects of Optional Practical TrainingTypes of OPT: Pre-completion (before graduation, part-time or full-time) and Post-completion (after graduation, full-time at least 20 hours per week).

Eligibility: Must be a full-time student for at least one academic year in an SEVP-certified institution, not studying English as a Second Language (ESL), and the job must directly relate to the major.

Authorization: Students must apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).

Application Timing: Generally 90 days prior to the program end date and up to 60 days after.

STEM Extension: Eligible STEM students can extend their post-completion OPT by 24 months, for a total of 36 months.

Employment Requirements: Employment must be in the field of study; for post-completion OPT, unemployment is limited.

The entire scheme seems built to defraud the American voter and reportedly that's exactly what it's being used for.

Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer

3h

ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students "who claim to be working for highly suspect employers" as part of the federal government's Operational Practical Training program.

Here's what they found...

-Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working

-Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease

-Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business.

-Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel

-Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract

And get this: Even where the taxpayers are paying for foreign students to do real work, guess who's getting the benefit of that taxpayer-paid work?

Tech monoplists, of course!

hernando arce @hernandoarce

New: Over the last 20 years, we're looking at roughly 2.5 million OPT and STEM OPT authorizations combined.

OPT stands for Optional Practical Training. It's a temporary work permission that lets international students in the U.S. work off-campus in jobs related to their major -- up to 12 months normally, and an extra 24 months for STEM degrees, so up to three years total. This is another fraudulent abused program running rampant in America.

Amazon tops the list with over 10,000 students, followed by University of California, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. Tech giants and universities dominate the top spots. Our government has sold us out to big tech for decades.

ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training.

Barefoot Student @BarefootStudent

2h

ICE Director Todd Lyons describes the fraud related to the 24-month Optional Practical Training extension for F-1 students

"We've encountered cases involving espionage, biological threats, intellectual property theft, visa, and employment fraud, and even scams targeting elderly Americans, all perpetrated by individuals abusing their status as students."

"The scope and severity of these crimes cannot be overstated."

@EricLDaugh (Eric Daugherty):

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There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America -- run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country!

Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses

There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane.

Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records, offshore payroll claims, and suspicious INTERNATIONAL MONEY flows

"HSI agents have visited problematic OPT employer work sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida."

"Foreign students themselves are entering false addresses and employer names into the student and exchange visitor information system."

"But we are uncovering evidence of organized fraud that spans national and international borders. This is not accidental. It is deliberate, coordinated, and criminal."

"To give you an example, one employer we visited claimed to employ only three foreign students through OPT, while our records show over 500 foreign students claiming to work there."

"The company's representatives were unable to answer basic questions about the business and deferred HR managers in India."

"OPT employers are required to directly train foreign students, but we've seen multiple examples of alleged employers claiming that all management is overseas in India."

"We've also discovered multiple state networks which are large networks of alleged employers claiming to train thousands of foreign students in OPT, then farming them out to unreported third party employers, making oversight nearly impossible and raising serious national security issues."

Mark Krikorian @MarkSKrikorian

1h

This is great -- fraud is endemic in OPT. But why hasn't OPT been cancelled altogether? Not only was it just made up by the executive branch, but it's facially illegal -- student visas are only valid while engaged in a full course of study.

And the pillaging continues along all fronts:

OUT: "Fraud, waste, and abuse" is but a minor part of the federal budget and anyone focusing on it is a charlatan who's not serious about cutting the federal budget

IN: Fraud, waste, and abuse is at least 20% of the federal budget. Anyone not focusing on it is a charlatan who's not serious about cutting the federal budget

When does the actual "enrichment" start happening?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:26 PM

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