300,00 Alien Workers Paid an 8 Percent Bonus Because They Are Not Americans

[rangerrebew]

300,00 Alien Workers Paid an 8 Percent Bonus Because They Are Not Americans
 
By David North on January 6, 2020

Though the press seems to keep it a secret, and the government permits it to continue, there are 300,000 or so alien workers in the United States who are given an 8 percent-plus bonus each year simply because they are neither U.S. citizens nor green card holders!

That sounds unbelievable, but it is true.

    Does the U.S. government, in fact, reward some workers handsomely because they are not Americans?

    Do their employers get an equal subsidy for hiring people who are not Americans?

    Does this subsidy of more than 8 percent get taken out of the hide of America's ailing and elderly?

    Is this subsidy costing the Social Security, Medicare, and Federal-State Unemployment Insurance trust funds something like $3 billion a year?

https://cis.org/North/30000-Alien-Workers-Paid-8-Percent-Bonus-Because-They-Are-Not-Americans

[PeteS in CA]

"Paid a bonus"? Clickbait misrepresentation. Here's what actually is done:

Welcome to the so-called Optional Practical Training program. OPT is only for alien graduates of U.S. universities, and is not available to similarly qualified citizen graduates. Under an obscure Department of Homeland Security ruling — no Congress has ever approved it — a recent alien college graduate is allowed to work legally in the United States for a year under a student visa and he and his employer are excused from the usual payroll taxes that support the three funds.
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At the average wage of new college grads, that is a $4,000-a-year break for the worker, and another $4,000 bonus to the employer. If the worker has an advanced degree in the STEM fields that might easily reach $8,000 a year for the worker, and another $8,000 a year for the employer. Every year.

Being excused from some $4K in taxes is not peanuts, but it is not being paid a bonus. Given the disingenuous headline, I'd regard even the above info to be dubious.