48,642 unaccounted foreign students poses a security threat, the OPT poses an economic one. David North, a policy analyst with the enforcement-oriented Center for Immigration Studies, said “there’s a major reason for worrying about U.S. employers getting a huge bonus for hiring (OPT students) over citizen or green card workers. There are no payroll taxes for up to 27 months with the OPT workers, on either the worker or the employer. It works out, over the full length of time at an average estimated salary, to a bonus of $10,000 per such hire. And all that money is taken away from the Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance trust funds.” You just have to wonder, what is going on in the US federal government?
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:18:35 +0000
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