Rep. Sam Liccardo joined education and business leaders, international students, and DACA recipients at Foothill College to criticize Trump administration immigration policies affecting Silicon Valley. He cited a proposed four-year cap on F-1 and J-1 status duration, new requirements that could require some green card applicants to leave the United States during processing, and growing delays in DACA renewals. He said his office is seeing more than five months of delay for DACA renewals. He also cited arrests and deportations of DACA recipients over a nine-month period. Liccardo introduced the Keep Innovators in America Act to protect Optional Practical Training and said Republican members support the effort.
"Rep. Sam Liccardo gathered education leaders, business executives, international students and DACA recipients at Foothill College on Wednesday to push back against a wave of Trump administration immigration policies he said are dismantling Silicon Valley's competitive edge. Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-San José, called out three specific Trump administration policies: a proposed four-year cap on the duration of status for international students on F-1 and J-1 visas, new requirements potentially forcing some green card applicants to leave the United States during processing and growing delays in DACA renewal applications that are already costing Bay Area workers their jobs."
"The congressman said his office is seeing delays of more than five months in DACA renewals. He noted that in a nine-month period last year, more than 270 DACA recipients were arrested and 174 deported. In response, he has introduced the Keep Innovators in America Act, a bipartisan bill to protect Optional Practical Training, a program that allows foreign graduates to work in the United States after completing their degrees."
""Donald Trump is pouring liquid Drano over the world's greatest magnet for human genius," Liccardo said. "And we're going to pay the price for generations.""
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