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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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Court ruling challenges Obama immigration action watchdog.org \| 12/2/14 \| Kenric Ward Posted on 12/2/2014, 6:39:10 PM by T Ruth WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a ruling that could short-circuit one of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a federal court has allowed U.S. tech workers to challenge extensions of foreign laborers’ status here. The case of Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has “major implications” for the president’s ability to expand the number of work visas and the terms or durations of those visas, said Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute. * * * Gene Nelson, a longtime activist for U.S. tech workers’ rights, estimates that downward wage pressures by OPT extensions already cost American STEM employees $175.5 billion in lost earnings. Nelson said the tech-visa programs “have morphed into de-facto government-sanctioned foreign hiring preferences.” U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle’s decision came one day after Obama announced plans to expand and extend the OPT program. Foreign students or recent graduates can use student F-1 visas to take jobs through OPT. Employers don’t have to pay them a prevailing wage, and they are exempt from Medicare and Social Security taxes, making OPT workers “inherently cheaper” than U.S. workers, the lawsuit argues. Huvelle ruled that the IT plaintiffs with degrees in computer programming “were in direct and current competition with OPT students on a STEM extension. This competition resulted in concrete and particularized injury.” (Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...

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