Monday, August 26, 2019
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #28
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #725
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Immigration Expert: Government Program Incentivizes Employers to Discriminate Against Citizen College Grads
North also said at the panel discussion, hosted by CIS, that millions of dollars a year is diverted from helping Americans to benefiting F-1 student visa holders and the American companies that hire them.
The students, North said, get to work for one year or more at an American business, and the business that hires them gets a discount under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) protocol that allows them not to pay certain payroll taxes for their non-immigrant, non-citizen employees.
“You shouldn’t take money from America’s elderly, give it to fat cat corporations so that they can discriminate against Americans,” North said. “I don’t think that’s a very good idea.”
Colleges and universities are also eager to accept foreign students because of the money their enrollment brings in, both as students and alumni.
At any given time, experts estimate that more than one million students from foreign countries are studying in the United States.
North wrote about OTP for CIS in 2015:
The program that converts foreign college graduates back to foreign students by a wave of a bureaucratic wand had these negative impacts on residents of the United States:
• It denied American workers more than 430,000 jobs during the years 2009-2013; and
• It removed $4 billion from the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
In 2017, CIS explained how OPT works in reality:
OPT is an example of the administrative state run amok. Instead of law coming from Congress, we have law coming from bureaucrats working hand-in-hand with lobbyists. OPT also illustrates the slippery-slope problem of regulation. Work on student visas started innocently as an integral part of a course of study to give foreign students an experience not available in their home country, but eventually was transformed into a full-blown guestworker program whose stated purpose is to...
G7 Surprise: Donald Trump Announces Trade Deal In Principle Agreement with Japan
“This is a tremendous deal for the United States,” Trump said after announcing the deal with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “It’s a, really, tremendous deal for our farmers and agricultural ranchers, and also involves other things.”
The two leaders agreed on a deal in principle, which they expected would be signed during the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.
After withdrawing from the proposed Trans-Pacific partnership, Trump pursued a bi-lateral deal with Japan since becoming president. The president developed a close personal friendship with Abe and continued pressing for a better deal for the United States.
Trump hailed the deal as a big step for American farmers, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the private sector would likely purchase new volumes of corn from the United States. Japan is also expected to cut tariffs on American beef, pork and agricultural products
“We believe that there is a need for us to implement emergency support measures for the Japanese private sector to have the early purchase of the American corn,” Abe said via a translator, noting that Japan was experiencing pests in their crops.
United States Trade Representative Robert Lightgizer said the deal included agriculture products, industrial tariffs, and...
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