The nominee for USCIS Director said today he wants to end OPT.
"What I want to see is...us to remove the ability for employment authorizations for F-1 students beyond the time that they're in school."
Why would we want to kick out talent right after we're done training them?
How was Florida State able to snag a Nobel Laureate for its chemistry faculty back in 2004?
Because it could offer Harry Kroto an H-1B to recruit him from the UK.
🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell moment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ABOLISHES H-1B VISAS from being used at state universities
"We can do it with Florida RESIDENTS or AMERICANS! If we can't? Then man, we need to REALLY look deeply at what's going on with this situation!"
DeSantis
The new Trump H-1B rule just dropped!
It prioritizes DOL "Wage Levels," not real wages. DOL thinks an experienced acupuncturist making $40k is a higher "Wage Level" than an early-career AI scientist making $280k.
That means more visas for outsourcers, fewer for real talent.
I would rather the USA slide down into an economic/technological backwater than deal with this preponderance of third world genius/saints. Our native stock is only overlooked because we are too expensive for the corporate/academic world and much harder to coerce.
"Open borders" is globe twitter's version of "abolish the police": taken literally it's a bad idea, many of the people who use the slogan don't really mean it, and it distracts from meaningful liberalization
New op-ed from me in the @WSJ.
Why are we still awarding H-1Bs by lottery?
400k+ applications are filed for 85k slots, so companies offering higher pay can lose out to others undercutting Americans.
Ditch the lottery, award H-1Bs by salary, and turn it into a growth engine.
Ganz: "Max Weber disproves your thesis and shows that Marx was extremely prominent and influential among scholars before the Russian Revolution in 1917!"
Also Ganz: uses a Weber quote about Marx's prominence...from 1920.
Why are we still awarding H-1Bs by lottery?
New data show there were more than 780k registrations for just 85,000 new H-1Bs available in 2024
Prioritizing applications by salary or a points-based system would make the program the growth engine it should be
The best way for the US to stay ahead of China is to poach their talent.
It’s reasonable to target individuals who pose a real security risk, but it’s self-sabotage to go after anyone in a broad field like AI.
~90% of Chinese STEM PhDs stay in the US and help us keep an edge.
The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
Canada just announced they're trying to poach 10,000 high-skilled immigrants from the United States as part of an "aggressive" new recruitment strategy
the longer we let the backlogs grow, the more attractive Canada will look to foreign talent who'd otherwise prefer to be here
