Grassley asks why annual report left out key data on student visa programs from Trump-era reports

Sen. Chuck Grassley in an April 21 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tae Johnson asked why data that had been provided in annual reports under the Trump administration was not included in recent reporting.

"For years, the Optional Practical Training and other practical training programs have been exploited by scam artists who use fake companies to provide fraudulent employment offers to international students in order to meet OPT employment requirements and extend F-1 student visas," Grassley said in a statement. "Data reporting transparency by the Trump Administration helped to publicly expose the extent to which some fraudulent employers had utilized the program, but for some unexplained reason, that employer data was left out of recent reporting. We need to know why that decision was made as well as what steps the Biden Administration is taking to restore transparency and prevent fraud," the letter declares.