By Sam Peak and Jiaxin HeFresh off of a federal court vacating the Trump administration’s 100,000H−1Bfee,theDepartmentofHomelandSecurityisconsideringwhethertoresurrecttheexactsametooltouseagainstanevenbiggertarget:theOptionalPracticalTrainingprogram(OPT). OPTisaprogramthatauthorizesinternationalstudentstoworkin[...]ThepostThe100,000 H-1B fee, the Department of Homeland Security is considering whether to resurrect the exact same tool to use against an even bigger target: the Optional Practical Training program (OPT). OPT is a program that authorizes international students to work in [...] The post The 100,000 OPT fee is a Trojan Horse for H-1B abuse appeared first on Economic Innovation Group .