#35
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Eric Schmitt

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153,646
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Not only that, but a cadre of shady consultants and woke NGOs are cashing in on OPT, teaching foreign students how to game the system. And some are even using foreign student labor in-house to coa...

Immigration & Border Security Workforce Immigration Visa Reform Legal Immigration Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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Apparently necessary, degree-related, high skill employers include: - A local Ethiopian restaurant, which filed for a STEM OPT employee last year (three-years long). It's a highly reviewed restau...

Immigration & Border Security Workforce Immigration Visa Reform Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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For example, Vitendo4Africa filed for an OPT and runs programs that: - Offer classes on green card applications, refugee resettlement and US elections. - Help employers to solicit newly arrived ref...

Immigration & Border Security Legal Immigration Workforce Immigration Asylum Policy Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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Bottom line: OPT is not a student training program. It’s a backdoor jobs program for foreign nationals at the expense of Missouri families and American grads who are still struggling to find work. ...

Immigration & Border Security Workforce Immigration Visa Reform Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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Update in my fight to dismantle the broken OPT system—ICE just got me the numbers: In Missouri alone there are 4,430 OPT visas—many working in jobs that are out-of-scope, stealing opportunities fr...

Immigration & Border Security Workforce Immigration Visa Reform ICE Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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American and Taiwanese relations are crucial for maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific. For 47 years, the Taiwan Relations Act has stood the test of time in the face of adversity from the Chines...

Foreign Affairs & Diplomacy Taiwan Indo-Pacific US-China Relations China Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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Another OPT employee works for a small janitorial services company. That doesn't seem like a natural fit. OPT often undercuts White Collar work, but it's also undercutting Blue Collar workers by f...

Immigration & Border Security Workforce Immigration Wages & Pay Small Business Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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OPT jobs *must* be directly related to the student’s major area of study. And if you're a STEM major, you get *3-years of work authorization.* Not only that, OPT holders are exempt from FICA taxe...

Immigration & Border Security Workforce Immigration STEM Education Social Security Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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Given that, and considering foreigners utilizing OPT may be desperate for work, it should come as no surprise OPT is often abused. I found cases of foreign students working at restaurants, bars, a...

Immigration & Border Security Visa Reform Workforce Immigration Apr 10, 2026 View on X
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The backlash was so fierce that the FJC was forced to pull the entire climate chapter, but only after it had already been distributed to thousands of judges. Let that sink in. They laundered Greta...

Environment & Energy Climate Change Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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The courts are not a branch of the left-wing NGO complex. They are not supposed to be trained by the very left-wing activists filing the lawsuits. They are not supposed to get their “science” from ...

Environment & Energy Climate Change Supreme Court Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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Then came the bombshell: The FJC’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, the guide judges use to decide what science counts in court. They snuck in a MASSIVE new climate change chapter, written...

Environment & Energy Climate Change Fossil Fuels Oil & Gas Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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The rule of law is sacred. It demands real neutrality, not indoctrination from Columbia climate warriors and their NGO allies. We’re going to keep shining a light on this until the pipeline is shu...

Environment & Energy Oil & Gas Climate Change Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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No amnesty. Years of mass migration have opened our country to monsters who are victimizing Americans. We need mass deportations now.

Immigration & Border Security Deportation ICE Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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But does this asinine ideology flow into FJC's work? Of course. The FJC has partnered with Columbia University and other left-wing organizations. Together they “educated” over 2,000 judges on clima...

Environment & Energy Climate Change Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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This taxpayer funded outfit has become infested with pop scientists peddling Davos-approved talking points. This isn’t something we can simply overlook or ignore.

Science, Technology & Digital Misinformation Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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This is clearly a taxpayer-funded patronage network. While doing the Left's dirty work in the Judicial branch, Linkins quietly funneled kickbacks through ActBlue to Democrats in Congress and Biden'...

Party Politics & Leadership Campaign Finance PACs & Super PACs Fundraising Congressional Ethics Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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Unsurprisingly, this is the type of content being promoted by the FJC's leadership. https://t.co/NO8Af6cpOk

Crime, Justice & Law Enforcement Judicial Nominations Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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She describes her "heroes" as Zora Neale Hurston (known for her flagrant plagiarism in her extensive work on Haitian Voodoo) and Staceyann Chin (A Chinese-Jamaican Lesbian Poet known for writing sm...

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You'd assume the FJC is filled with unbiased and impartial legal scholars, especially when it comes to directing judges' continuing education. Let's meet @jrlinkins, Director of Education at FJC.

Crime, Justice & Law Enforcement Judicial Nominations Apr 09, 2026 View on X
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Rank History

Apr 2026
#35

Content Categories

Immigration & Border Security 71
Constitutional & Electoral Reform 40
Crime, Justice & Law Enforcement 9
Policy Announcements & Executive Action 5
Environment & Energy 5

Topics & Themes

Fourteenth Amendment Supreme Court Deportation ICE Executive Orders Legal Immigration Campaign Finance Sanctuary Cities Workforce Immigration Fundraising Voting Rights Judicial Nominations Visa Reform Climate Change Tribal Affairs Border Wall Sports & Olympics Religious Liberty Victims Rights Congressional Ethics

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Posts
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Eric: 146 ↑
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Eric: 136,176 ↑
Comments
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Avg Likes
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Eric: 932.7 ↑
Avg Comments
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Eric: 59.8 ↓
Benchmarker Score
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Eric: 153,646 ↑
Posts/Week
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Eric: 48.7 ↑
Avg Post Length
226 chars
Eric: 296 ↑
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