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Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat and no fan of Donald Trump, was captured on video in the Oval Office Monday during an event with the president, expressing obvious discomfort as he hammered Joe Biden over his lax immigration policies.

The setting was the announcement that the NFL Draft in 2027 would be held in Washington, D.C. Also present were NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and other officials.

In an X post featuring the video, country musician John Rich noted, "This is hysterical. Look at the Mayor of DC's body language, she's about to spontaneously combust."

Bowser's participation started positively, as RedState reported.

"We are delighted to be here with the Washington Commanders, the NFL, and the president to talk about this very exciting announcement for Washington, D.C.," she said. "We believe in investing in sports because they have helped us transform neighborhoods."

But once Trump began criticizing his predecessor, the mayor's face betrayed her discomfort.

The mayor's awkward looks follow an Oval Office appearance last month by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in which she held a blue binder in front of her face, apparently embarrassed by her presence in MAGA Central: Donald Trump's Oval Office.

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, said President Donald Trump's ban on transgender service members and ideologies in the U.S. military may stand.

Trump, on taking office for his second term, issued that order because transgender warriors require inordinate amounts of medical and other treatments, are not ordinarily ready for deployment and create other issues for fellow soldiers.

The decision Tuesday halted a lower court's decision that prevented the policy from taking effect.

As expected, the leftist trio of Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Jackson, who infamously was unable to even define "woman" during her Senate confirmation hearing, would have allowed the lower court order to stand, in a move that would have prevented the president of making the U.S. military better and more formidable.

The lower court judge, Benjamin H. Settle, had claimed, "Because the military has operated smoothly for four years under the (pro-transgender) Austin Policy, any claimed hardship it may face in the meantime pales in comparison to the hardships imposed on transgender service members and otherwise qualified transgender accession candidates, tipping the balance of hardships sharply toward plaintiffs."

Trump, as commander-in-chief of the U.S. military, had confirmed that "expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service."

According to a report from CBS, the ban on transgenders will remain in effect "while legal proceedings move forward."

Trump had determined that the military's "high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity and integrity" are inconsistent with the "medical, surgical and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria."

The president continued, "A man's assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."

Trump already, during his first term, had barred transgenders from the U.S. military, a move that the Supreme Court allowed then.

Joe Biden, whose top agenda ideologies during his one term appeared to be abortion for all and transgenderism for all, especially children, reversed Trump's standards.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, after Trump's order, told the Pentagon to pause admissions for people with gender dysphoria histories, and halt the so-called "gender-affirming" care that involves chemicals and/or body mutilating surgeries.

As people who follow the science know, changing from male to female or vice versa doesn't happen, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.

The CBS report noted the Pentagon disbursed some $52 million on medical "care" to treat gender dysphoria between 2015 and 2024.

The Supreme Court's ruling came in a case from Washington state on behalf of "seven transgender service members" and others.

The Department of Justice had explained the decision was not discrimination based on sex, but was based on "medical condition, gender dysphoria," the report said.

The government has told the high court, "If the separation of powers means anything, the government obviously suffers irreparable harm when an unelected judge usurps the role of the political branches in operating the nation's armed forces."

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Tina Peters, formerly a clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, and a Republican, while trying to protect and preserve 2020 election results from her county, apparently briefly exposed an election system's password.

Democrats in her state put her in jail for nine years for that situation.

Now, President Donald Trump is ordering the Department of Justice to help her.

The injustice of the sentence for Peters was made plain only a few months ago when it was revealed that Jena Griswold, the blue state's Democrat secretary of state, was found to have posted an entire list of state election systems passwords online, but prosecutors gave her a pass.

In fact, Griswold played an integral role in hounding Peters when she made that copy of election results.

In a social media statement, Trump wrote, "Radical Left Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser ignores illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Murder in his State and, instead, jailed Tina Peters, a 69-year-old Gold Star mother who worked to expose and document Democrat Election Fraud. Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment. This is a Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020. The same Democrat Party that flies to El Salvador to try to free an MS-13 Terrorist, is cruelly imprisoning, perhaps for life, a grandmother whose brave and heroic son gave his life for America. Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American. I am hereby directing the Department of Justice to take all necessary action to help secure the release of this 'hostage' being held in a Colorado prison by the Democrats, for political reasons. FREE TINA PETERS, NOW!"

In fact, Colorado is run by majority Democrats in the state House and Senate, and a Democrat, homosexual Jared Polis, is governor. Further, all of the members of the state Supreme Court are Democrats, and they took their partisanship to an extreme, wildly attempting to bar Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state.

Colorado also has firmly established a reputation as a dictatorial regime, having tried multiple times to control the thoughts and beliefs of business owners by mandating that they promote pro-LGBT ideologies in order to do business in the state.

Twice, the state has been trashed by the U.S. Supreme Court on that issue, and the result has been that innocent taxpayers must pay millions of dollars for the legal fees triggered by the leftist agenda adopted by the state's regime.

WND previously reported on the Griswold scandal.

Griswold was exposed as having revealed dozens and dozens of state election systems passwords online for the 2024 election.

She was investigated, but authorities handed her a free pass for her behavior.

The leak was described as having come from her office, but it involved the current passwords for voting equipment in 34 Colorado counties.

Her actions were unveiled by an announcement from the Colorado Republican Party, which investigated. There were calls for her to take responsibility and resign and she refused.

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A new lawsuit alleges the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is running what's being called an "unconstitutional shadow agency," going beyond the responsibilities of the judicial branch by taking regulatory actions.

The fight was launched by America First Legal Foundation, which was started by Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy.

Chief Justice John Roberts was cited in his capacity as the head of the U.S. Judicial Conference. Also named was Robert J. Conrad, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

A report from Fox News explains: "The complaint accuses both the U.S. Judicial Conference and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts of performing certain regulatory actions that go beyond the scope of resolving cases or controversies, or administratively supporting those actions, which they argue are the 'core functions' of the judiciary."

It also charges that records of those organizations should be subject to Freedom of Information Act requirements.

The newest fight comes amid a campaign by district judges, those who run the entry level of the federal court system, to issue a long list of nationwide injunctions through which they claim the authority to make decisions for the executive branch, which by the Constitution is the responsibility of the president.

Those injunctions cover topics from deportation of illegal alien criminals to firing unwanted federal employees to handing out taxpayer cash that Trump wants to keep and use for American interests to securing the border and deciding who can claim American citizenship.

The Fox report said new fight cites "actions taken by both the Judicial Conference and Administrative Office in 2023 to 'accommodate' requests from Congress to investigate allegations of ethical improprieties by Justices Thomas and Alito, and subsequently to create or adopt an 'ethics code' for justices on the high court."

The complaint states, "Under our constitutional tradition, accommodations with Congress are the province of the executive branch. The Judicial Conference and the Administrative Office are, therefore, executive agencies."

Such a ruling would give the president more authority to deliver instructions to those organizations.

"The U.S. Judicial Conference is the national policymaking body for the courts. It is overseen by the Supreme Court's chief justice and tasked with making twice-yearly recommendations to Congress as needed. The Administrative Office for the U.S. Courts, meanwhile, operates under the guidance and supervision of the Judicial Conference. Its role is to provide administrative support to the federal courts on certain administrative issues and for day-to-day logistics, including setting budgets and organizing data, among other things," Fox reported.

The filing charges that such duties are "executive functions."

"Courts definitively do not create agencies to exercise functions beyond resolving cases or controversies or administratively supporting those functions," the complaint said.

At the Gateway Pundit, a report said the allegations amounted to a "bombshell" against Roberts.

It characterizes the lawsuits as accusing "the powerful duo of running what AFL describes as an 'unconstitutional shadow agency' and violating federal transparency laws."

It, essentially, accuses the bureaucracies of being "rogue 'executive agencies' that have collaborated with far-left lawmakers to wage lawfare against conservative Supreme Court justices."

It charges, "For several years, the media and enterprising lawmakers have launched an onslaught to destroy the impartiality and political neutrality of Article III courts and, particularly, the Supreme Court. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh have all faced political and physical threats because of the politicization and weaponization of the law. This lawfare has been led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Hank Johnson, relying upon an ideologically favorable legacy media to falsely accuse Justices Thomas and Alito of ethical improprieties. Their aim was simple: to chill the judicial independence of these Supreme Court Justices."

The court case follows requests by AFL for information and arguments that the bureaucracies must comply with FOIA because they exercise "executive powers."

In the face of the agencies' refusal, the case was filed.

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Her status as a well-known media elite didn't seem to help as CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell's D.C. husband's restaurant was raided by ICE agents Tuesday.

The Trump administration has been working to remove illegal aliens from the food industry, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.

"Restaurants in the DC, including Chef Geoff's in Northwest and Millie's in Spring Valley[,] were subject to I-9 audits by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, today, per ICE official and DHS official," CBS News's Nicole Sganga reported on X. "Restaurants were delivered 'notices of inspection' and asked to question employees about their work authorization."

The restaurant, Chef Geoff's, is owned by O'Donnell's husband, chef Geoff Tracy. According to Fox 5 in D.C., no one was taken into custody as a result of the raid.

O'Donnell herself is not without controversy. She faced criticism last year for what critics said was her partisan moderation of the vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz.

The CBS anchor has also drawn backlash for her "toxic behavior" in the workplace, including frequent outbursts and reported berating of dressing-room stylists.

Earlier this year, O'Donnell delivered an emotional farewell as she signed off from her role on "CBS Evening News." After five years as anchor and managing editor, O'Donnell stepped down amid significant organizational changes at the network.

President Trump has prioritized the crackdown on employers in so-called sanctuary cities.

During the first 100 days of Trump's second term, ICE agents "arrested 66,463 illegal aliens and removed 65,682 aliens, including criminals who threaten public safety and national security," the agency said in a press release last week.

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A federal judge whose biased courtroom policy – he routinely orders case participants to use "preferred" pronouns demanded by the leftist transgender agenda – has refused to let women athletes involved in a dispute over a promotion of transgenderism appeal.

The fight involves S. Kato Crews, who is paid as a federal judge in Colorado. He's hearing a case involving women athletes against the Mountain West Conference over its decision to allow a man, Blaire Fleming, to compete on the women's team in the conference.

The update comes from Cowboy State Daily, which noted that multiple women from the University of Wyoming are involved.

Crews routinely orders those in his court to use "preferred" pronouns for participants. That could be the totally inaccurate "she" or "her" for a man.

The women bringing the action against the conference asked him to recuse from the case, as his courtroom demeanor suggested he had prejudged the case. He refused.

They asked to appeal. And he refused again.

He claimed that he was allowing an exception for the women in this legal fight, so there were no grounds to appeal.

The underlying fight is over Fleming, and his presence on the women's team for San Jose State University's volleyball team.

"Eleven current and former collegiate athletes and one SJSU volleyball coach on Nov. 13 sued the Mountain West Conference, and SJSU and its umbrella organization in the federal U.S. District Court for Colorado," the report explained.

Wyoming forfeited two of its games against San Jose State University because of the man's participation on the women's team. Several other teams also forfeited.

The report noted, "Crews maintains a rule requiring the use of 'preferred' pronouns for transgender people referenced in his court."

The women argued that he should not hear the case, as he has shown he "has pre-judged the case and its question of whether a transgender volleyball player is a woman under the law."

The response from Crews, over his refusal to allow an appeal, was that he said he waived the pronoun requirement for participants in this case.

The judge turned sarcastic in his response to the women athletes, stating, "Rather than operating under the purported 'stigmas' and 'specters,' the Court encourages Plaintiffs to take 'yes' for an answer. Countless times now, the Court has told Plaintiffs they may use whatever pronouns they choose in these proceedings. They've done so from the start. They've done so without sanction or admonishment from the Court."

However, his answer did not address the fact that his ordinary courtroom standards include the "pronoun" requirement, leaving still standing the perception of his bias.

The judge also claimed his rules that benefit one side of the transgender arguments do not suggest a pre-judgment.

The case will now proceed in the district court where it was filed.

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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat elected to Congress by a Muslim-dominant district in urban Minneapolis-St. Paul, has sparked outrage a number of times for her anti-American comments.

She's also been involved in a long list of scandals.

And she recently was on film using obscene language in response to a reporter's question.

But now she's taking a full-scale scolding online for a clip of her comments from a few years ago, now resurfaced, demanding that the government needs to be "profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men."

The ultra-racist comment actually was, "I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country, because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country. And so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men."

She was talking with Al-Jazeera about the threat of jihadis in America.

Vice President JD Vance wrote, "This isn't just sick; it's actually genocidal language. What a disgrace this person is."

"This is blatant racism," added GOP Sen. Mike Lee on social media. "Who condemns it?"

A report at Fox News noted yet another scandal about her behavior just recently was when she told "Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell to 'f*** off' after he asked her a question about fellow Democratic Party figures traveling to El Salvador to defend illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to the country by the Trump administration."

Omar followed up on social media with another descent into the gutter, stating, "I said what I said. You and all your miserable trolls can f*** off."

The scandals, in fact, are just the latest in an encyclopedia of behavior by Omar that abuses Americans.

Others over recent years have included questions about her tax returns, her failed financial disclosures, how she gave 70% of her campaign expenditures to a firm run by her now-husband, how there were credible reports one of her multiple marriages was to her brother, ostensibly to give him legal status to remain in America, accusations she raised money for a food charity and then pocketed the dough, her demand that the government take over control of all hospitals, how she was accused of paying one ex-husband $250,000 for his silence, how she was named as an adulteress in divorce court, and more.

Significantly, she has made comments over the years about how she is working for the benefit of her native Somalia while in Congress, not for the benefit of Americans.

The resurfaced clip was posted online by conservative influencer accounts including Laura Loomer and LibsofTikTok with millions of impressions, sparked outrage from conservatives on social media, including from inside the White House, Fox reported.

"@ilhanMN never ceases to be an embarrassment for Minnesota," GOP Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, said.

"There's never been a more anti-American member of Congress than Ilhan Omar," influencer Paul Szypula posted on X.

Online, a movement already was under way to push for her to be charged, convicted, and deported.

Here's her announcement of her allegiance to a country other than the United States.

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Lawmakers in California, stunningly, have refused to make buying kids for sex a felony.

There's a new report in the Federalist that explains the antics of Democrats who insisted on having their way with a new law, and what it means.

The report, written as a commentary, explained, "Should it be a felony to purchase an underage minor for illegal sex? For most of us, the answer is a very easy yes. This is not a hard one."

But Democrats in the state "feel differently."

"The state assembly there this past week considered a bill — AB-379 — that would have amended state law to make it a felony to solicit paid sex from 'any person under 18 years of age.' In other words, if you seek out and pay a minor for sex — if you engage in child sex trafficking — you would be guilty of a felony."

Democrats there, the report said, "mounted a major opposition to the bill. By the time they were done with it, the bill's protections for 16-year-old sex crime victims had been stripped from the measure."

They added their claim that it was "the intent of the Legislature to adopt the strongest laws to protect 16- and 17-year-old victims," but then they refused to do just that, the report said.

The opposition, the report said, stemmed from concern "that the measure could disproportionately affect … LGBT Californians."

"The ACLU of Southern California claimed in part that similar measures 'have been used disproportionately against … LGBTQ+ individuals,'" the report said, while "Other opponents of the bill claimed that the measure could be used by parents who are upset that their children are in 'LGBTQ relationships.'"

Those beliefs were justified by state Sen. Scott Wiener, who long has promoted the LGBT ideologies, the report said, when he commented, "sending an 18-year-old high school senior to state prison for offering his 17-year-old classmate $20 to fool around isn't smart criminal justice policy."

Social media backlash was harsh.

"This pervert wants to allow children to be prostituted."

And, "You're an embarrassment to the party…"

And, "This is absolutely bonkers."

The report explained, "At best, Democrats and other opponents of this bill are attempting to defend underage prostitution as a normal feature of young relationships (it's not). At worst, they are revealing, inadvertently, that LGBT individuals are apparently regular participants in the sex trafficking of minors."

The bill itself concerned itself only with "paying for sex with minors."

And the report warned, "Most functioning adults consider it a very bad thing when underage children are paid for sex, no matter the circumstances. Opponents of this bill are acting as if they are defending meaningful, intimate relationships, rather than innately harmful, exploitative, and dangerous ones."

The report said, "The party has sent an unmistakable message to sexual predators around the country: If you come to California to buy a minor, the state government is prepared to go easy on you."

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'This will be 70% cheaper for American taxpayers, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone'

President Donald Trump, trying to clean up the national security-threatening crisis Joe Biden created with his open borders policies that allowed millions of illegal aliens, including criminals and terrorists, to come into the U.S., repeatedly has been opposed by leftist judges.

He can't send illegals home without court hearings, even though they are criminal simply by having entered the U.S. without permission. He can't send them to THAT country.

Judges have strangely ordered some of them to be brought back to the U.S., even though they already are under the jurisdiction of another nation. Or they've ordered deportation flights already in the air to turn around.

Now Trump's Department of Homeland Security has revealed a deportation plan that cuts through all of the arguments.

It, in fact, would leave those calling for hearings and with complaints about "rights" without an argument.

It's because the program would provide government help for those illegals to self-deport.

They would take themselves back.

At Fox News a report said DHS will "front the cost of commercial flights and provide a $1,000 stipend to illegal aliens who opt to self-deport from the United States."

It is predicted to save thousands of dollars from the alternative, which is a forced removal program run by the government where aliens are rounded up and removed.

"The department says this will be 70% cheaper for American taxpayers, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone. DHS told Fox News that paying for aliens to remove themselves, even with the stipend, is anticipated to cost only around $4,500 on average," the report said.

The money would be paid only when it was verified that the illegal alien had, in fact, left the U.S.

The Trump administration already had set up the CBP app that allows illegals to plan their own self-deportation.

"If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told.

"DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App. This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers. Download the CBP Home App TODAY and self-deport," she continued.

The policy so far has been that those who are deported by the government will be banned from returning to the U.S. in the future. Another incentive for self-deportation is that officials expect to allow those individuals a chance to return eventually.

While illegal aliens are subject to deportation proceedings, Trump has focused so far on the criminal illegals, including alleged members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs, which have been designated as terror organizations.

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'If a program designed for temporary academic training now facilitates long-term labor substitution, bypasses wage standards and government oversight, and encourages the offshoring of U.S. jobs ... why is it still allowed?'

WASHINGTON – Originally intended to support academic exchange, U.S. student visa programs have gradually been expanded and transformed into large-scale foreign labor channels, all to the detriment of multitudes of American workers.

Since the 1990s, changes to the international student F-1 visa framework and the introduction of Optional Practical Training, or OPT, have enabled hundreds of thousands of international graduates to enter the American workforce annually, often without the oversight, wage protections or regulatory limits required under traditional employment visa programs.

Among the organizations recognizing and operationalizing this shift is Miles Education, an India-based company, which has developed a business model that integrates education, immigration, employment and offshoring, thereby largely redefining the role of the U.S. student visa system.

The international student F-1 visa, established under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, enables foreign nationals to attend accredited U.S. educational institutions as full-time students. Students must demonstrate financial sufficiency and a nonimmigrant intent – that is, an intention to stay temporarily in the U.S. but not immigrate or seek permanent residency.

In 1992, the U.S. Department of Justice introduced Optional Practical Training, allowing F-1 international student graduates to work for 12 months after completing their studies. Then in 2008, the George W. Bush administration expanded this with the STEM Optional Practical Training Extension, granting an additional 24 months to graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Thus, these Optional Practical Training and STEM OPT programs enable international graduates to work in the United States for up to three years after completing their studies, and with very few restrictions on employers. Companies are not required to prove that American workers are unavailable for the job, meet minimum wage standards based on the industry or location, or sponsor the worker through a formal visa process.

Additionally, there is no limit on the number of OPT workers a company can hire. As immigration policy expert Dr. Ron Hira has testified before Congress, this structure effectively created a parallel labor market operating without congressional authorization or traditional worker protections.

Miles Education's model thrives within this regulatory void.

How OPT has changed under different administrations

U.S. companies have obvious and powerful financial incentives to hire Optional Practical Training workers instead of American graduates.

Through Miles' placement services, corporations gain access to an ever-abundant pool of OPT workers who are ready for immediate employment, offering a workforce that is less expensive, less regulated and less legally encumbered than their American counterparts.

One obvious example: Employers who hire OPT workers are exempt from paying Social Security and Medicare taxes, resulting in approximately an 8% reduction in employment costs per worker. Such advantages make OPT workers significantly more affordable and easier to hire than American graduates, leading businesses to favor foreign student labor over the domestic workforce.

Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Labor has no authority to enforce wage standards for Optional Practical Training workers, which means it operates outside normal employment-based immigration oversight. The Department of Homeland Security certifies student visa programs, but does not require employers to test the labor market – i.e., demonstrate to the government that they've tried but failed to find a qualified, willing, available U.S. worker for a specific job before hiring a foreign national. Also, Optional Practical Training's classification as a "student benefit" rather than a work visa shields it from labor protections.

As of 2023, the Department of Homeland Security's SEVIS database – short for Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – reported over 1.5 million active F-1 and M-1 visa holders, with approximately 539,000 authorized for work through OPT or STEM OPT. Organizations that took note of the gap between immigration intent and labor reality viewed it not as a loophole, but as a market opportunity. For companies like Miles Education, which structured its business around that gap, it has proven to be highly profitable.

Transparency reports from the first Trump administration revealed that corporations such as Amazon, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and JPMorgan Chase were among the largest employers of workers under the OPT and STEM OPT programs. In 2019, for example, Amazon employed 2,813 OPT/STEM OPT participants, Deloitte employed 822 and Ernst & Young employed 431, figures publicly available through the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

However, under the Biden administration, ICE stopped releasing employer-specific Optional Practical Training data, reducing public visibility into how major companies utilize the program. This rollback in transparency has been noted by immigration policy analysts and organizations advocating for greater oversight.

However, under the Biden administration, ICE stopped releasing employer-specific Optional Practical Training data, reducing public visibility into how major companies utilize the program. This rollback in transparency has been noted by immigration policy analysts and organizations advocating for greater oversight.

For a reported fee of approximately $48,000, students were promised admission into partner U.S. universities, support in securing international student F-1 visas, assistance obtaining Optional Practical Training authorization and direct placement into U.S. companies. Internal promotional materials emphasized career outcomes, expedited and guaranteed immigration services and corporate hiring connections, with significantly less emphasis on traditional academic achievement.

This image is prominently displayed on Miles Education's U.S. Pathway website, illustrating how its program can assist Indian nationals in achieving a successful career in the U.S. with an impressive salary in just seven months.

Scaling the model: Miles' partnerships and reach

Miles Education's business model has demonstrated significant success and operational presence in the U.S. market, characterized by financial growth, university collaborations and successful placement of graduates into American firms. As of March 31, 2023, the company reported annual revenues of approximately $22.8 million USD, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 94% over five years. This growth highlights the commercial viability of its integrated education-to-employment pipeline.

The company's success is fueled by a marketing strategy that emphasizes access to the U.S. job market over traditional academic achievements. By providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes entry into the U.S. education system, a pathway to legal work authorization and direct job placement with American companies, Miles serves effectively as an education consultant, visa facilitator, labor supplier and offshore partner. This multi-faceted approach enables the company to capture commercial value throughout the student-to-worker transition.

A key modification to its model involved redesigning degree programs to enhance student eligibility for the STEM framework of Optional Practical Training. To obtain eligibility for the STEM OPT extension, Miles collaborated with U.S. universities to provide STEM-designated Master's programs in accounting, partnering with institutions such as Michigan State University, Rutgers University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of California, Riverside.

Although accounting, one of Miles' primary offerings, is not classified as a STEM field by the Department of Homeland Security, the company worked with these universities to integrate data-centric courses like business analytics and information systems, an enhancement that allowed these programs to achieve STEM OPT designation, in turn extending U.S. work authorization for international graduates from 12 to 36 months.

Miles marketed its services to U.S. employers as an efficient workforce solution, highlighting advantages like "visa-free hiring" and "visa-less talent access," which appeal to employers seeking graduates already authorized to work under Optional Practical Training.

Building the pipeline

Miles Education has developed several subsidiaries and program services that significantly contribute to its full-cycle success in the international education and labor markets.

Miles STEM Pathway, for example, promotes the advantages of three years of work without visa sponsorship, effectively transforming a non-STEM accounting degree into a STEM-designated program by integrating data analytics.

Through the STEM Pathway program, Miles has positioned itself as a key player in the global education and labor sectors by connecting academic pathways to employment opportunities. The integration of STEM elements into non-STEM degrees has improved job prospects, establishing Miles as both an education provider and a facilitator of labor-market access through its Ed-Work model, which combines academic enrollment with employment placement.

Likewise, Miles's subsidiary Miles Talent Hub provides pre-vetted, work-ready candidates who do not require sponsorship or labor condition applications, enabling cost savings and facilitating rapid team scaling. This approach has established student visa work authorizations as a viable hiring option.

In the U.S., Indiana's CPA Society's Vendor Directory, for example, highlights Miles' pool of over 1,200 international graduate accountants available for three years without the need for visa sponsorship.

Miles Talent Hub also promotes its Placement Drive program as a direct hiring pipeline into U.S. accounting and finance firms, providing international graduates with competitive starting salaries. Key partners include EisnerAmper, BPM and major tech companies including Amazon and Microsoft, all of which highlight successful alumni placements. Additionally, the company leverages its connections with the Indian "Big Four" – Deloitte India, EY India, PwC India and KPMG India – to develop a robust foreign labor channel into the U.S. market.

Miles Education's Dual Coursework program, provided through its U.S. Washington-based subsidiary, Futurense Technologies US Pathways allows candidates to complete some coursework in India and avoid standard entrance exams, including the English language tests typically required for F-1 visas for studying at U.S. universities. This approach not only minimizes the educational requirements in the U.S., but also expedites the transition to employment.

In a story published by English-language Indian news site News 24 Futurense's US Pathway is characterized as disrupting traditional study abroad models by cultivating strategic partnerships, providing scholarships and streamlining master's degree processes for Indian talent. This involves collaborations with top-ranked universities in the United States, including Case Western Reserve University, DePaul University, Drexel University, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and others in the pipeline.

Futurense founder Raghav Gupta remarked, "Unfortunately, studying abroad has evolved into a societal privilege, inaccessible to Indians due to exorbitant tuition fees, complex systems and high entry barriers. The numbers were distressing and something had to be done to make the U.S. masters and its market available to all deserving candidates in India. This is why we created India's very own Pathway program."

In addition to their rapid-degree programs, reportedly Futurense provides a "tailor-made" untapped talent pool sourced through unconventional methods that can be onboarded in as little as 48 hours and can save employers up to 65% on their costs.

Offshoring careers: Completing the Miles labor cycle

When students' OPT and STEM OPT work authorization periods near expiration, Miles has facilitated the next stage, transferring workers to offshore operations in India via its affiliate, Miles Talent Hub. Through this model, companies could retain trained personnel at even lower wage rates, sidestepping U.S. immigration complexities altogether.

What began as a student visa for academic pursuit frequently ended in permanent offshore labor substitution, a transformation few policymakers anticipated when these programs were created.

Conclusion: A system quietly rewritten

The international student F-1 visa and Optional Practical Training programs were introduced under the premise of educational exchange – temporary in nature, academic in intent and limited in scope. Federal law makes clear that international student F-1 visa students must pursue full-time study, with no guaranteed right to remain in the United States for work. Optional Practical Training was created as a training benefit, not as a labor source.

Yet Miles Education's model operates at the opposite end of that framework. Rather than focusing on education for its own sake, its approach views education as a pathway to long-term work authorization. By integrating STEM-designated admissions, immigration consulting, U.S. job placement and offshore continuity into a single, cohesive pipeline, Miles functions more as a private labor channel than as a traditional academic provider. While Miles frequently markets its program as a solution to help address America's "skills gap" crisis, the model is strategically designed to make India "the powerhouse of talent."

As a final consideration: If a program designed for temporary academic training now facilitates long-term labor substitution, bypasses wage standards and government oversight, and encourages the offshoring of U.S. jobs while offering no protections for American workers, then the question becomes unavoidable:

Why is it still allowed?

As companies optimize for cost savings and compliance avoidance, and as intermediaries design business models that extract value from each regulatory blind spot, the intended purpose of these programs fades further and further from their original intent. If the outcomes result in tangible harm to American graduates and the irreversible loss of opportunities, it highlights not only a policy failure, but also the need for a critical national decision.

The international student F-1 visa and Optional Practical Training programs were not created to displace Americans, yet today they are routinely used in ways that do precisely that, and on an increasingly wide scale.

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