Federal Government Gives $2 Billion If Businesses Hire Aliens Over Americans | National Economics Editorial

Federal Government Gives $2 Billion If Businesses Hire Aliens Over Americans | National Economics Editorial:
"The Federal government is still incentivizing businesses to favor immigrants over Americans, to the tune of $2 billion in subsidies across the country, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

They do this via the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. 
This program by the Federal government provides money to businesses that discriminate against American citizens in favor of immigrant ones.
...According to the CIS, this program was used to scrape $2 billion from the Federal tax pool to give to businesses that hire 240,000 alien college graduates in favor of American graduates. 
This is done by giving any business that hires a foreign student that has graduated from a US post-secondary institution an 8.25% tax break.

The CIS explains how this number was calculated:

The subsidies to hire the foreign alumni are extracted from the Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance Program trust funds and were estimated to be in the area of $1.155 billion in that article. It is now clear that in FY 2017 the total subsidies came to something like $1.98 billion, or close to $2 billion.

They then go on to note the political support this program has silently received over the past decade:

The program, as we noted earlier, has had silent but bipartisan support; it was created by the Bush II administration without any congressional authorization, was subsequently expanded by the Obama administration, and has been tolerated by the Trump administration..."

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