Take Action: Stop Trump’s Attacks on International Scholars & the OPT Program

UAW academic workers and researchers across the country are mobilizing against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to undermine the rights of international workers.

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) is trying to increase fees to $100,000 for international students and scholars using Optional Practical Training (OPT). OPT allows F-1 international scholars to continue working in a similar field for up to three years. This discriminatory and xenophobic fee would reduce work opportunities for UAW members who are international scholars in the United States and would negatively affect U.S. higher education and research. 

DHS is currently accepting comments until November 9 on the proposed rule—this is our opportunity to express opposition. Take a few minutes to submit a public comment on how this discriminatory and xenophobic rule change would harm your studies and/or research and hurt scientific advances in the U.S.

There’s a pre-written comment that you can modify as you wish with individual details. Everyone can submit a comment, and a massive response will help clearly convey workers’ mass opposition to this new fee.

On Thursday, October 29 at 3 PM ET, the UAW Higher Education Department is hosting an organizing call so that workers can learn more about how we can stop DHS's proposed changes to OPT fees. We’ll also be phone banking fellow UAW members to ask them to submit comments. Please register to join us!