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The Trump administration moves to attach a $100,000 fee to Optional Practical Training permits that have long allowed foreign graduates to remain and work in the United States for one to three years after completing their degrees. Universities and corporations have treated this program as an open conduit for cheap, skilled labor that displaces native graduates and suppresses wages in technical fields.
Behind the reported policy lies the quiet recognition that a nation cannot survive when its universities function as recruitment stations for the managerial class's global workforce. The Dispossessor class, entrenched in both corporate boards and academic administrations, has profited from this arrangement while the household economies of American families bear the cost in lost opportunity and diminished prospects.
Western Christendom once understood the ordering of labor through guild protections and civic oaths that bound economic activity to the welfare of the native people. From the medieval city charters to the mercantile statutes of the early modern nation-states, rulers regulated foreign entry into trades precisely to preserve the stability of household and commonwealth against rootless exploitation.
The present proposal therefore recovers an ancient principle rather than inventing a novelty. National sovereignty includes the authority to set terms under which outsiders may enter the domestic economy, an authority the United States has steadily surrendered to international student programs and corporate lobbying since the middle of the twentieth century.
Scripture and the creeds alike affirm that God appoints nations with distinct inheritances and charges rulers to seek the good of their own people first. The Augustinian distinction between the City of God and the earthly city does not dissolve the duty of temporal authorities to guard the material conditions that allow families to flourish in their own lands.
By raising the cost of foreign participation to a level that reflects the true value of American opportunity, the administration begins to reassert that the nation's labor market exists for its citizens rather than for the convenience of universities and multinational firms. This is no gesture of exclusion but the restoration of ordered stewardship.
The Faithful Remnant must therefore press every lever of influence to see the fee enacted and enforced without dilution. Anything less leaves the gates open to the continued demographic and economic erosion that has already thinned the inheritance of the American people.
