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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Under the Gang of 8’s backroom immigration deal with Senators Schumer,
Corker and Hoeven, formerly illegal immigrants who are amnestied will be
eligible to work, but will not be eligible for ObamaCare. Employers who
would be required to pay as much as a $3,000 penalty for most employees who
receive an ObamaCare healthcare “exchange” subsidy, would not have to pay
the penalty if they hire amnestied immigrants.
Consequently, employers would have a significant incentive to hire or retain
amnestied immigrants, rather than current citizens, including those who
have recently achieved citizenship via the current naturalization process.
The issue is really an “interaction effect” of the immigration proposal
and ObamaCare itself.
Beginning in January, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees, that
do not currently offer healthcare benefits that are considered “acceptable
” by the Obama administration, must pay a penalty if at least one of their
workers obtains insurance on a new government-run “exchange.” The penalty
can be as much as $3,000 per employee.
Many employers have been preparing to cope with the new regulations by
slashing the hours of full-timers to part-time status. Since “full-time,”
in the language of ObamaCare, is averaging 30 hours per week, employers will
, in general, receive the penalty if they have 50 or more employees who are
working an average of 30 hours per week.
If the immigration bill becomes law, many employers could receive incentives
of hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire amnestied immigrants over
American citizens. In addition, these newly legalized immigrants could work
“full-time,” an advantage for companies and businesses as well, while
employers could lay off or diminish to “part-time” status, American
workers.
Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner explains that he spoke with Alex
Conant of Sen. Marco Rubio’s staff in April about the wrinkle, and was told
that this was an issue that could be addressed during the legislative
process.
“[T]he scenario you raise illustrates both the absurdity of ObamaCare, and
why we have insisted on a lengthy process to review this legislation before
any votes are taken,” Conant emailed Klein. “We always expected there
might be a need for amendments to fix technical problems, and we’ll be
interested in seeing what sort of amendments might be offered to improve
this part of the legislation without giving ObamaCare to illegals- something
Sen. Rubio has always said he will not support.”
However, as Klein said a couple of weeks ago, the issue has not been
addressed and, in fact, the Schumer-Corker-Hoeven deal carries out what
appears to be a major complication for American workers. Klein said that
Conant did not respond to further requests for comment on this issue.
As for Conant’s comment in April about Rubio insisting on a “lengthy
process to review this legislation before votes are taken,” that seems to
have gone with the wind as well. |
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