The State Department announced major changes Friday to one of its
premier cultural-exchange programs following an investigation by The
Associated Press that found widespread abuses.
The agency issued new rules for the J-1 Summer Work and Travel
Program, which brings more than 100,000 foreign college students to the
United States each year.
The changes are the latest in a series of steps the State Department
has taken to fix the program since the 2010 AP investigation. The
investigation found that some participants were working in strip clubs,
not always willingly, while others were put in living and working
conditions they compared to indentured servitude.
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Once again, government run a muck. (more specifically the executive branch) The new regulations regarding J-1 employees are 91 pages long. Employers now have to know thousands of pages of regulations just to make sure they are operating legally. At least the new J-1 regs aren't as bad as the new H2B regs, which are over 500 pages long. No joke. These new regs are TOTALLY union driven and definitely illegal themselves. Visa regs are set by congress but the Dept of Labor has taken it upon themselves change them unilaterally. These new regs were put in place after DOL interviewed "35 parties". 35?...really?! One of the new J-1 regs is that those employees can't work between the hours of 10pm and 6am....because working during those hours is "against the cultural basis of the J-1 visa program". Really? You just cant make this stuff up.
ReplyDeleteThe liberal Obama lovers don't want good looking Russians coming to this country legally to actually work. They want the illegal alien Mexicans to come to this country and suck off the government hind tit.
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