Foreign Students Being Given Summer Jobs Over American Students
Foreign exchange students going to school in the United States are finding it easier to seek employment this year than college students born and living in America.
That fact has been raising eyebrows regarding American’s world-travel program.
The State Department has promised to place foreign students in “light, seasonal occupations” after an investigation revealed that more than 100,000 college students who come to American on J-1 visas end up taking jobs in strip clubs and at company’s with less than stellar safety records, often earning less than $1 per hour for their hard work.
Under the governments current plan politicians argue that they are actually saving American workers’ job by keeping foreigners out of warehouses, factories and other positions where higher pay is given to American citizens.
In one case a pool worker tells the Associated Press that “a lot of young Americans just don’t want to be lifeguards.” That pool operator claims they have been forced to hire international labor because of American teenagers’ attitudes towards the job.
Other managers say the longer school years and extra activities undertaken by US students makes it hard to hire them for regular hours.
In the meantime one immigration expert gives a more sinister explanation for the hiring foreign workers; Employers do not have to pay social security or medicaid for those workers since they are not US citizens, plus they can pay minimum wage and as an added slap in the face to American teenagers those company’s receive a tax break for employing non-American workers.
