In January, investors’ concerns about China’s advances in AI innovation wiped out nearly a trillion dollars in U.S. tech stock value. That happened in a single day.
Chinese companies like DeepSeek are often able to keep pace with Silicon Valley because they steal our tech secrets, and they do it from right under our own noses.
This not only puts the United States at a competitive disadvantage, but also threatens our national security.
The Citizenship & Immigration Services Ombudsman has warned that Chinese nationals in our university systems are engaged in widespread technological espionage – both on campus and in the workplace.
Foreign STEM students often take tech jobs that give them access to sensitive technologies.
This shouldn’t be possible.
Why? Because the law clearly states that student visas are “solely” for study, not for work.
Outrageously, the Department of Homeland Security has granted work authorizations to hundreds-of-thousands of foreign students every year, in violation of the law.
The Department of Homeland Security has even allowed foreign students to stay in this country under their student visas for years after they graduate in order to work.
If we want to protect our national security, and our competitive economic [advantage] with China, this must end.
So, I’m hopeful that, with new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, these unlawful work authorizations will no longer be approved.
That leads me to call on Secretary Noem to protect American jobs, innovation and national security by terminating the CPT and the OPT student work programs.
In other words, stop the steal that benefits the Communist Party of China.
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