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greenpoint 发表于 2015-11-10 02:56
我准备去facebook发动我的美国小盆友们来帮助我们~~

注意不要弄巧成拙，别到时候人家写反对的了

sskiso 发表于 2015-11-10 03:02
注意不要弄巧成拙，别到时候人家写反对的了

有没有类似这个帖子的英文帖子啊？想发给我们系的group chat （大部分都是international students），直接发链接可能没人点，要这样有理有据的说明利害关系的英文帖子么？

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I'm an Engineer working with OPT visa and I think it is good to improve the training opportunities for F1 students with STEM degrees.

I read some objection comments. However I don't think their reasons could make sense.

1. A lot of comments say "hiring the students will reduce the minimum wages", is that right? I don't think so.
Here is my argument:
Among the students working with STEM OPT visas, a lot of students are in Electrical Engineering major and computer science major. Me and a lot of my friends holding OPT visas are working in Silicon Valley. In silicon valley, the minimum wage for entry level Electrical engineer is about 90K USD per year. Computer Engineers could get even higher salary. In Google, Facebook, Linkedin etc, the entry level software engineer could get something close to 180K USD package (Sign on bonus, relocation fee, base salary, stock) in the first year. As far as I know, this salary is higher than the US average salary. In other parts of US, the salary for STEM students might be lower but it is still higher than US average salary. Even some people holding STEM OPT visas may work with a lower salary, but I don't think the percentage is high. I don't think it is a good idea to kick out all of us just because few of us could tolerate their work with wages lower than minimum salary for US citizens. To support the option "hiring the students will reduce the minimum wages", we may need a survey regarding how many OPT students work with salary lower than the minimum wage requirement. Without such a survey, the statement "hiring the students will reduce the minimum wages" is groundless.

2. Some people also comments "US citizen pay tax to support foreigners, which is not fair for US citizens"
The reason for OPT students pay less tax than US citizens is mainly because of they don't enjoy so much benefits as US citizens. They do pay the tax they need to pay for the country. Regarding the tax, you guys should question IRS but not DHS.

3. I also saw a lot of comments saying that "Work opportunities should be open to US citizens but not foreigners".
My question is: Does the US has enough resource for that kind of job right now? When I was looking for a job, I found a lot of positions only open to green card holder or US citizens in the career fair. It seems not too many companies want to hire OPT students because they couldn't work in the company for longer than 29 months without further sponsership. Sometimes the program could take more than 3 years and it is not good for a students with OPT visa to participate. If the company couldn't find the right candidate with US citizenship, they have to find some OPT holders as a substitution.

In my company, I know some positions needs candidate urgently and sometimes they even have to pay high relocation fee to hire somebody from Europe. If they could find the right candidate locally, I don't think it make sense for the company to do so.

From my point of view, F1 OPT students are making a lot of contribution to US society right now. In Apple, Google, Facebook, Linkedin. etc, there are a lot of employees holding F1 visa. They are making great contribution to the company, making the company grow up and hire more employees. Laying off them right now might cause a disaster to the company. If the company come to a bad shape, it is not good for US citizens as well because there are also a lot of US citizens in STEM area.

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主要论点一：美国作为世界的领导者，不能在科技人才的竞争中输给其他国家
主要论点二：opt是美国大学吸引国际学生的重要原因，国际学生对美国来说是绝佳的消费者团体，制造了大量的就业机会

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又提交了一发。。。
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写不了长篇大论，咱就多灌几次水。希望能通过。 不知道为什么，觉得评论中还是负面评论多啊，好担心。