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‘END IT NOW’: MAGA Demands Trump End
Visa Program That Takes Jobs from Americans

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 6/14/2026 5:30:05 PM

Some Republicans and immigration hawks are demanding that the Trump administration finally end a visa program that incentivizes employers to hire foreign students. The Optional Practical Training program, created in 1992, allows foreign students to remain in the United States to work for nearly four years after graduation. Employers receive a tax break for hiring foreign graduates under the program, which some say gives foreign nationals an advantage over U.S. citizens. “F” student visa holders, including OPT graduates, are considered nonresident aliens for their first five calendar years in America. For those years, their wages are exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes—for both the employee and the employer.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: crashnburn 6/14/2026 5:38:13 PM (No. 2116613)
All it OPT is another way for employers to legally circumvent laws that require them to pay their employees a competitive wage. H1-B is also abused by employers and should be ended. Full disclosure. H1-B is designed to augment, not replace employees. Synopsis used it to replace me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: red1066 6/14/2026 7:09:33 PM (No. 2116648)
A program designed and implemented by Congress and the Senate to benefit all the corporations that fund the campaigns and line the pockets of said Congress persons and Senate persons. It's no different than letting tens of millions of illegals into the country to provide cheap labor for corporations so their profits increase without a corresponding increase in the cost personnel and benefits for those employees. There is no other reason for this program to exist except for these reasons.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: NYbob 6/14/2026 11:15:39 PM (No. 2116721)
No amount of speeches or rallies can justify this, but it is easy to see why a corrupt congress will never get rid of it. A safe bet for President Trump to end it, and in fact he should end it. He wins either way. If the corrupt congress defies him, he can point out to the public who the rats and RINOs are. If he can actually end it, more middle of the road types will have to admit he did something good and actual American citizens will cheer it. This is bigger test for his administration, and JD Vance's future than they might realize.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Strike3 6/15/2026 6:04:39 AM (No. 2116780)
Employing foreign workers is okay if you can't find a citizen with the needed skills. Doing it to cut costs is not. As thousands of employers have found out the hard way, diversity is not our strength.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mifla 6/15/2026 8:31:23 AM (No. 2116847)
I agree with the statements about corporate motivation for visas. Given the woke creatures that our educational system is producing, I wonder if there are enough competent Americans to fill these jobs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: doctorfixit 6/15/2026 9:12:32 AM (No. 2116874)
Unfortunately I believe the President may b vulnerable to corporate interests on this issue, I'll take a wait-and-see position. I'm not betting either way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Rumblehog 6/15/2026 12:55:38 PM (No. 2116954)
You are seeing the effects of Corporate Lobbying on the Congress. The CEOs of large corporations sought free, cheap labor, to use and throw away, or to use to suppress wages of American citizen workers. The GREED of CEOs knows no bounds.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: privateer 6/15/2026 2:06:39 PM (No. 2116978)
I want to see MFFA. That is: Make Foreigners Foreign Again. Fire them, send them back, import only the most urgently necessary, and HIRE Americans.
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