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I strongly support the OPT extension that helps international students to find a job in United States. To support my opinion, I will provide three reasons:
Firstly, United States is in its nature an immigrant country. In its 300 years of history, United States has embraced thousands of millions of immigrants coming to its shores from all over the world. Diligent and highly-skilled immigrants settle their homes here, establish their new social relations, open up business and start-ups, hire local American people to join their companies, all of which facilitate United States to become the world's first power after World War II. Immigrants have significant impact on the nation's business, politics, education, science and technology. For example, many successful scientists and researchers are foreign-born, in the year of 2013, 4 U.S immigrants won the Nobel Prize:  Martin Karplus, performs his research at the University of Strasbourg and Harvard University, he was born in Austria. Michael Levitt works out of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and was born in the United Kingdom. And Arieh Warshel, is a professor at the University of Southern California and was born in Israel. It's obvious that outstanding immigrants help U.S. to become the world's leader in the science and business realm.
Secondly, allowing foreign students to stay in U.S don't reduce American's working opportunity, but create more available jobs in the long term. Many entrepreneurial students may open up their own companies here, hiring more local people. Their startups can also increase the government tax income as well. Some successful examples include Tesla, which was founded by Elon Musk, a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate. Clearly, the companies he founded(Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal) is shaping the world in many aspects. I firmly believe that in the near future, there will be more 'Elon Musk', because many foreign students I know in STEM major are very smart, diligent and visionary. I think more miracles can be fulfilled only if United States continue to support those capable foreign students.
Lastly, if the OPT extension act is not fulfilled, thousands of hi-tech employees will lose their jobs and forced to leave. In the IT industry, once such a situation occurs, many large companies cannot hire enough highly-skilled people. This will impair the information industry greatly and may pose U.S. in a dangerous position in global competition. Meanwhile, if foreign students are not allowed work here, less and less foreign smart students may want to pursue their higher degree in U.S. universities. This will lead to a great loss of top students and potential leading researchers, which is definitely not desirable for university professors.

Please see below two posts, hope that it will help:

Post 1:
I am an international student studying in the US in the Engineering discipline. And today I just read some comments which declared that the international students are getting all the jobs in the STEM area, and the citizens cannot get any more jobs. Thus the government should prefer citizens and give them more chances to get those jobs, thus should stop the OPT extension policy and get rid of these international students by stopping the OPT policy. This is extremely ridiculous and I have to say a few words to criticize it:

1) The fact that the STEM companies are hiring international students is that they are indeed better students who know the techniques better! The company has the aim to make great products and serve the customers better, thus they want to recruit the best people. I don't believe that the companies would be happy to see the lack of good students (no matter what their nationality is). It is only when the companies find the good people can they make more contributions to the community, society and the country.

2) The fact that so many good international students exist here will push the citizen students to study harder and gain better skills and knowledge. You can never deny the fact that it is the communication of people with diverse background that make innovations and push the envelope of technology. Think of how Greece can develop such great technology, math, political and psychology knowledge in the early days. It is because they embrace diversity and go over places in Europe to learn different knowledge, and then construct innovative ideas.

3) If by the end of the day, the US has made the mind to stop OPT and get rid of the creative STEM students, they don't have anywhere to go but to work for other counties. It will be a disaster for the US to lose so many brilliant students and instead, send them to the competing countries (say China, India and Russia). Indeed they are very good workers, and they would contribute the same amount in the other countries, subtraction in the US side and addition to the opponents. It wouldn't be wise to do so. And I believe that everyone believes the established fact that in the 21st century, the country which gains the high ground of STEM will lead the world.  

In a word, I believe that the US should work so hard trying to keep the good students in the US after their graduation and try to make them contribute to the country and society as much, instead of driving them away. It wouldn't be wise for the country to do so from any kind of perspective. All in all, I am supportive for the OPT extension policy.
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Post 2:

I think this is an extremely important act and I cannot hold any more positive opinions about this issue. Take myself as an example, I am a PhD student working in Engineering at Purdue University, and will enter the work force very soon. I have worked and studied very hard to earn this opportunity to come to the USA and study here, and I have gathered extremely useful knowledge and skills. I really wish that with my skill set, I can work in the US easily with OPT until I can find a permanent job in the future. With a 24 month extra OPT, I can have more chances to get the lottery for H1B, and then having a very high chance to get it. If I have this new OPT policy to back me, I can focus more on the work and create more value for the company, the customers in the US (and globally) and make contribution to the US. In the long run, I may want to be a permanent resident of US, and I believe that the extension of the OPT is a first ste p toward s that. It is going to make tremendous effect on my personal life, and I believe I will make great contribution to this country as paying back!
   

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I totally supported this rule, here are my points:
1: Nowadays, a lot of countries are trying to attract more international students, including Canada, UK, China and so on. The reason is very obvious, on one side they want to let more people know their country to increase their impact on the world, and also they want to make money from these international students! Why more and more people choose the United States for STEM degree? That is because they can find a stem related job after they graduate, if the stem opt extension ended, there is no doubt that most of international students will lost their interest to go to the US.
2: Currently there are more than 50000 people who are already in 17 months opt extension, if this extension ended, all these people should leave the US immediately. Some of them may involved in some very important research or project, if they are forced to leave, that would caused countless lose to American Company, American Lab and School! So DHS should address this critical problem to reduce the lose to Americans.
3: Nowadays a lot of research should last more that 24-36 months, if the student only have one year of OPT, it is impossible for them to finish the project, which is really a bad things. I worked for Oracle Internet of Things Project more than one year, a lot efforts has been made in the past year, but the final product is still under development, more time are needed for the project to be finished!
4: Some people may says the STEM extension of OPT would allow international students to rob the job from US people, but the real things is that students in STEM extension period are also allowed to work in e-verified company, which means that international students would have the same pay as US people and they will also need to pay tax as US people. There would be no chance for e-verified company to hire low cost people. I worked for Oracle American Inc for more than one year, I can tell you that nearly 1/3 on my annual income as been reduced as tax to American government!

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