Schumer & Rubio vs. US Workers

The Chamber of Commerce, Big Ag, and SEIU assembled this bill, along with the usual LaRaza suspects.  It was very secretive work for a good reason:  they don't want you to know what's in it.

Under the existing Senate immigration bill, immigrants who have been in the United States illegally can obtain a provisional legal status after paying fines and meeting certain preconditions. But this population would have to wait at least 13 years to be able to obtain full citizenship, and it isn’t until then that they could qualify for government benefits such as Obamacare.

The problem arises when this rule interacts with another provision of Obamacare – the employer mandate. Starting in January, businesses with 50 or more employees who don’t offer workers health insurance that the federal government deems acceptable must pay a penalty if at least one of their workers obtains insurance on a new government-run exchange....

So?

This means if the immigration bill becomes law, some employers could effectively face incentives of hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire newly legalized immigrants over American citizens, because the immigrant workers would not qualify for Obamacare benefits.

In the past, the signs read "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY."

Now it's "US CITIZENS NEED NOT APPLY."