In a new move, DHS is taking some funds indirectly from the Social Security and Medicare programs and giving it to USCIS, aliens’ employers, and sometimes to the foreign workers themselves; we are engaged in a bit of financial reverse engineering — DHS does not describe it in the realistic manner used here.
The agency calls it “premium processing”.
Then the employer and often the alien (OPT) worker engage in an employment relationship without the usual payroll taxes, thus depriving the Social Security, Medicare and federal unemployment insurance system of about 8 percent of the payroll.
That deduction deprives those trust funds of $4,000 a year from the employer in all cases, and another $4,000 a year from the alien if he has been here for less than five years — assuming a $50,000 a year salary, which has been typical for new college grads in recent years.
For the non-baseball fan: Joe Tinker, shortstop, Johnny Evers, second baseman, and Frank Chance, first baseman, were a stand-out double play trio for the Chicago Cubs more than a century ago.
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