The Weekly Standard – by JOHN MCCORMACK
The immigration bill passed by the Senate Thursday afternoon would give some employers a financial incentive to employ “registered provisional immigrants” (illegal immigrants granted legal status) instead of U.S. citizens.
As the Washington Examiner‘s Philip Klein recently reported: “Under Obamacare, businesses with over 50 workers that employ American citizens without offering them qualifying health insurance could be subject to fines of up to $3,000 per worker. But because newly legalized immigrants wouldn’t be eligible for subsidies on the Obamacare exchanges until after they become citizens – at least 13 years under the Senate bill – businesses could avoid such fines by hiring the new immigrants instead.”
On Tuesday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked five U.S. senators about this problem, and none of them knew if it was a problem. “We’re trying to solve that right now. I don’t know if that’s been solved,” Senator Max Baucus of Montana (chief author of Obamacare) told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
“I don’t know. I’d have to look at it closely,” said Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. “I just haven’t read it that closely to know.”
As The New Republic, Investors’ Business Daily, and the Washington Examiner have all reported, this problem certainly does exist, and the bill was never amended to fix the problem before it was passed by the Senate on a 68-32 vote Thursday afternoon. “[Registered provisional immigrants] are not subject to mandate and the do not count towards an employer’s penalty,” Sean Neary, communications director for the Senate Finance Committee, told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in an email late Thursday night.
No one will miss these 68 ‘senators’ beholden to israel and jewish oligarchs… 😉
All that is left is for the powers that be to tell American citizens to get out of their houses and hand over all their belongings to illegal aliens………oh wait, that is already happening! Millions of illegals pour across our borders every day, week, month and year. It’s all allowed for the purpose of destroying this country and driving the American people into slavery. Oh, and for any sheeple reading this comment, those FEMA camps aren’t for the illegal aliens, they are for the American citizens who’s place they will be taking.