Does the immigration reform bill incentivize companies to fire Americans and hire immigrants?

 Does the immigration reform bill incentivize companies to fire American workers and hire newly amnestied immigrant workers?

  Because the immigration reform bill states that amnestied immigrants will not be eligible for Obamacare that is the claim being made in this article:

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.

  Many Americans have had their hours cut as employers seek to avoid Obamacare costs, and because of this the Obamacare penalties have been shifted from the employers to the employees.  These employees–who now have less money coming in–will either have to find money for healthcare or face the wrath of the IRS come tax time.

    As if this prospect was not bad enough many of these people may now face the prospect of losing their jobs altogether to people who came into the country illegally; now they will have no money coming in and still will be required to pay the fine while the newly legalized immigrants will be working full time and will not be faced with the same penalty as American citizens.

  Of course the government’s solution to this problem–which they are in the process of creating–will be to give these immigrants healthcare benefits and make them eligible for Obamacare. And the Republicans will jump on board with this solution by claiming that while they do not want to do they have to support it in order to protect the American worker, when in reality the best protection would be not passing this bill in the first place.