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Swordsmyth
03-22-2019, 01:43 AM
A review board in Virginia has begun the process of shutting down a suspected “visa-mill” college that placed thousands of low-wage foreign graduates into Americans’ white-collar jobs. Colleges are allowed to get work permits to an unlimited number of fee-paying foreign students and graduates via the federal Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. This huge but little-known OPT program costs the federal government at least $2 billion per year, and it pushes many thousands of American graduates out of good jobs and leaves them with far less money to pay off their college debts.
But Virginia International University (VIU) got into trouble by providing sub-standard educational services to its OPT customers, making it seem as if it is a visa-selling business rather than a legitimate university. In 2017, VIU provided 965 foreigners with OPT work permits, according to federal data (https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/data-Top100OPTSchools_2017.pdf).


The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) voted Tuesday to approve “a staff recommendation (http://www.schev.edu/docs/default-source/about-section/council-files/2019-council-meetings/agenda-book-w-page-numb-and-links-(updated-table-4-and-viu)2.pdf) to begin administrative processes that may lead to revocation of Virginia International University’s certificate to operate,” said a statement from press secretary Laura Osberger. The decision came after an audit (http://www.schev.edu/docs/default-source/about-section/council-files/2019-council-meetings/agenda-book-w-page-numb-and-links-(updated-table-4-and-viu)2.pdf) revealed the center’s low standards:

SCHEV staff found the quality and content of the online education provided by VIU to be patently deficient.

In all, 50 separate cases of plagiarism were detected during the audit. In only two of these cases did students receive a zero for the plagiarized work. None of the other plagiarized work reviewed by the audit team was penalized.
[In one class] All four students plagiarized; all received 100% on the assignment.

Four final papers reflected students with extremely low levels of English proficiency. In their attempts to hide plagiarism, students substituted synonyms for words in their reports and created strings of nonsensical sentences in the process. Three of these students received final grades of A, one received a C.
The following represent examples of wording from 2 different final papers: i. “However, if the situation is happened even the company protected, the occupational disease is seeking so they need to get treatment earlier.” (sic) ii. “Faircheck will use Justice theory as battleship with the conflict of interests.” (sic)

SCHEV concludes that the only reasonable recommendation staff can make to Council is revocation of the certificate to operate.
The college did not respond to phone calls from Breitbart News.
The VIU crackdown comes two months after agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE (https://www.ice.gov/sevis/whats-new#tab2)) agency at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that more than 100 Indian students signed up for a fake university that offered access to the OPT work permits in exchange for tuition cash.

Feds use a fake university to bust college-grad labor traffickers who funneled at least 600 Indian grads into jobs around the US. The trafficking was hidden within the quasi-legal workforce of 1.5 million H-1B, OPT, L-1, TN, etc. white-collar visa-workers. https://t.co/EBenDh5wE3
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 31, 2019 (https://twitter.com/NeilMunroDC/status/1090966809950457856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
The VIU crackdown also came as the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report (https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/697630.pdf) mildly criticizing the DHS’s underfunded oversight of the OPT program:

Between 2013 and 2017, ICE recertified about 12,900 schools. However, according to ICE officials, they have been unable to meet the 2-year time frame and, as of June 2018, had 3,281 recertification petitions waiting for review.
Extra funding and stronger penalties for fraud would help oversight — but the OPT program is strongly supported by business. For example, it is supported by the FWD.us lobbying group, which was formed by a group of West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg:

I'd ask what you would like to see: we're pro H1-B reform, OPT, H-4 work authorization, increased rights for immigrants, lifting country cap…and, like economic data makes clear, dont believe that work authorization for immigrants hurts (quite the opposite) native born Americans
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) June 16, 2018 (https://twitter.com/TheToddSchulte/status/1007821704188649472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Corporate pressure has ended a 2017 proposal in DHS to shrink the OPT program. In fact, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency announced a plan in March to help OPT students transfer (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/first-phase-of-premium-processing-of-h-1b-cap-applications-to-aid-intl-pupils-get-work-visas/articleshow/68506225.cms?from=mdr) into the H-1B program, which allows workers to get green cards.
This corporate support for the OPT program has also reduced Congress’ focus on the OPT program. for example, Congress is unwilling to reward federal agencies for exposing the visa-mill colleges or to help the media expose the middle-class outsourcing industry.
In fact, North Dakota’s GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer, Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee, and Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck, are pushing a pair of bills — H.R. 1044 and S. 386 — that would fast-track Indian and Chinese OPT students into green cards and citizenship:

US college grads lose jobs, careers & salaries b/c companies' have imported 1.5 million+ low-wage, indentured, non-immigrant, perma-temporary visa-workers. Media ignores their peers' losses but displays noble concern for migrants. Wall St. laughs #HR1044 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HR1044?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) https://t.co/4TIUFzhC9b
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 2, 2019 (https://twitter.com/NeilMunroDC/status/1101926420987760640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
The vast majority of VIU students (https://www.viu.edu/our-university/facts-and-figures/facts-figures-2015-2016/) are Asians, including Indians and Chinese.
This congressional reluctance to stop the middle-class job theft matches Congress’ tacit opposition to enforcing border laws against the trafficking of Central American laborers into the U.S. blue-collar job market.
Overall, DHS does little to curb abuses in the program, said David North, at the Center for Immigration Studies. “It is failing to audit some of these marginal schools, and they deserve to be audited,” he said.
In contrast, Virginia’s SCHEV officials have already shut down two other OPT-mills in Virginia, he said, adding “they apparently have the moral fiber to pay attention to this, and a lot of other states don’t.”
In Virginia, the VIU’s operation was defended (https://cis.org/North/Virginia-Regulators-Take-Another-Step-Toward-Ending-VIUs-License) at the SCHEV meeting by a Democratic state Senator, Chap Petersen.
In 2017, roughly 400,000 (https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/data-ApprovedEmploymentAuthorizations2007-2017.pdf) foreign students were allowed to start U.S. jobs under the OPT program and its pre-graduation cousin, the Curricular Practical Training program (CPT).
That is a huge inflow — and is equal to roughly one OPT student for every two Americans who leave college with a skilled degree. Overall, 500,000 OPT and CPT students were allowed to work (https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/data-OPT-STEM-OPT-CPT_2017.pdf) for at least part of the 2017 fiscal year.
The OPT numbers for 2018 are to be released by the end of March 2019.
The federal government subsidizes this mass-displacement of Americans by exempting (https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4147959-social-security-medicare-taxes-for-f1-opt-filing-as-resident) companies from paying Social Security or Medicare taxes for OPT workers. That tax break helps the companies and the foreign workers but annually extracts $2 billion from the Social Security and Medicare funds, said North.
Federal data shows that many OPT workers are hired by prestigious companies (https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/data_Top200_EmployersPrePostCompletion_OPT_Student s2017.pdf), including Amazon, Intel, Google, Deloitte, Microsoft, and Facebook, so denying started jobs to Americans. These companies also hire many H-1B visa workers (http://www.myvisajobs.com/H1B-Visa/SearchLCA.aspx) instead of Americans, and now have a growing share of foreign-born managers.
Many OPTs are also hired by little-known companies, such as Integra Technologies, XCG Design Corp., and Findream LLC (https://www.findream.us/about). These three companies keep a low profile on the Internet, but LinkedIn shows they have a remarkably high proportion of young Chinese employees. Job sites, such as Glassdoor, show the companies are high-pressure employers.
The OPT trafficking generates huge income for prestigious universities and fly-by-night colleges, largely because foreign students will pay high tuition prices to win the OPT work permits. The top five (https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/data-Top100OPTSchools_2017.pdf) universities in the OPT business are New York University, Northwestern Polytechnic University, the University of Southern California, Columbia University, and Northeastern University, all of whom benefit from various federal tax breaks.
But many regional universities, such as the University of Central Missouri, earn (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/inside-the-growing-guest-worker-program-trapping-indian-students-in-virtual-servitude/) money from placing foreign workers into the middle-class jobs sought by their own American graduates.

Virginia regulators move to shut down a college that catered almost exclusively to international students, decrying deficient courses, rampant cheating, and students' subpar English https://t.co/pzf4mxQzZ8
— Karin Fischer (@karinfischer) March 20, 2019 (https://twitter.com/karinfischer/status/1108445343601979392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
The OPT program was never designed or created by Congress. Instead, the middle-class jobs-giveaway was started by agency officials working for former President George W. Bush. It is now facing a lawsuit from the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/21/virginia-targets-fake-university-selling-work-permits-foreign-graduates/

timosman
03-22-2019, 01:47 AM
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Itsback
03-22-2019, 04:33 AM
Look at first 30 years of Boeing, Airbus etc..... All the employees/workers were Americans and they are hard working.

acptulsa
03-22-2019, 06:31 AM
Look at first 30 years of Boeing, Airbus etc..... All the employees/workers were Americans and they are hard working.

All Airbus employees are American?