• MEDIA: DHS's OPT Rule: Contempt for Congress, for American Workers, and

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 19 12:23:00 2023
    Morris Dees and $PLC certified deplorable, George Fishman and Julie
    Axelron, on whether Donald Trump regrets slow-walking the
    rescission of the extra-legal OPT program: <URL:https://cis.org/Fishman/DHSs-OPT-Rule-Contempt-Congress-American-Workers-and-American-Students>
    | We didn't just fall off the proverbial turnip truck. One of us
    | (George Fishman) worked for Congress for close to three decades and
    | knows that the executive branch doesn't always strive to honor the
    | spirit, or even the letter, of the law as written by Congress when
    | single-mindedly pursuing an administration's agenda. Sometimes, the
    | statutes for which regulations are being written are just
    | inconvenient truths to be locked away in the attic. But in all my
    | (George's) years, I never witnessed an agency so brazenly, so
    | unapologetically, so contemptuously, and so openly subvert
    | Congress's will as did the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
    | with regard to its expansion of the Optional Practical Training
    | (OPT) employment program for supposed foreign students. And this is
    | not a partisan matter; while George worked for Republicans in
    | Congress, it was the George W. Bush administration that did the
    | deed. And while the Obama administration repeated the affront, it at
    | least had the decency to obfuscate its motives and publicly honor
    | the Constitution's separation of powers. The Bush administration,
    | not so much. It acted with clear contempt for Congress. If there is
    | ever a Schoolhouse Rock 2.0, this sorry episode should be the
    | screenplay for "How a Bill Becomes a Law, and Is then Gored".

    Who will Trump nominate to succeed Ur M Jaddou at USCIS.GOV and Tae
    Johnson at ICE.GOV and will Mitch McConnell consent?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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