{"id":21989,"date":"2014-11-26T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21989"},"modified":"2014-11-26T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:40:21","slug":"amnesty-loophole-makes-illegal-immigrants-more-cost-effective-than-native-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21989\/amnesty-loophole-makes-illegal-immigrants-more-cost-effective-than-native-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty Loophole Makes Illegal Immigrants More Cost-Effective than Native Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to grant amnesty and work permits to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants creates a loophole that makes them $3,000 more attractive than native born and naturalized Americans, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/25\/obama-amnesty-obamacare-clash-businesses-have-3000\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The loophole arises because Obama\u2019s amnesty order prohibits the beneficiaries from buying subsidized insurance on an ObamaCare exchange. That prohibition means that employers don\u2019t have to pay the $3,000 per employee fine the controversial health law imposes on businesses that don\u2019t provide \u201caffordable\u201d health insurance. (Lack of affordability is what qualifies an employee to get a subsidy for the exchange.)<\/p>\n<p>In other words, from an employer\u2019s standpoint, hiring someone from Obama\u2019s 5 million-strong amnesty pool means getting an exemption from the $3,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>So, not only are illegal immigrants covered by Obama\u2019s amnesty skipping ahead of people trying to immigrate legally, they\u2019re now also equivalent to a get-out-of-fines-free card when compared to all the workers already here.<\/p>\n<p>And the outrage will just keep on building\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to grant amnesty and work permits to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants creates a loophole that makes them $3,000 more attractive than native born and naturalized Americans, according to the Washington Times. The loophole arises because Obama\u2019s amnesty order prohibits the beneficiaries from buying subsidized insurance on an ObamaCare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,2366,4616,35],"class_list":["post-21989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-immigrant","tag-labor-market","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21994,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}