{"id":520338,"date":"2010-04-08T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/fair-report-cautions-against-democrats-amnesty-plans-41968\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T13:07:44","slug":"fair-report-cautions-against-democrats%c2%92-amnesty-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520338","title":{"rendered":"FAIR Report Cautions Against Democrats\u0092 Amnesty Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.06.10 10:06 AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/wp-content\/themes\/redesign\/images\/statue_of_liberty_image.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>As the Democrats are turning their sights towards immigration reform, a prominent advocacy organization has warned that an amnesty for illegal immigrants would be detrimental to American workers&#8217; prospects. <\/p>\n<p> According to the report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) entitled <i>Amnesty and the American Worker<\/i>, record levels of immigration during the 2000s have added new workers to the labor force faster than the economy has been able to create new jobs.<\/p>\n<p> That is why the organization has criticized the amnesty idea supported by many Democrats, saying that at a time when some 25 million Americans are either unemployed or involuntarily working part-time, amnesty would entitle the estimated 7.5 million illegal aliens to keep their current jobs, and compete with American workers for any new jobs.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;It is unconscionable that at a time of devastatingly high unemployment, our nation&#8217;s leaders seem determined to forge ahead with legislation without even considering the harm it might cause,&quot; said Dan Stein, president of FAIR.<\/p>\n<p> He also disputed assertions that the move would boost the U.S. economy, saying the benefits would accrue almost entirely to the amnestied aliens and their direct employers. <\/p>\n<p> The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest the unemployment rate in March remained unchanged at 9.7 percent. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19706445\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/fair-report-cautions-against-democrats-amnesty-plans-19706445\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/&#8230;lans-19706445\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.06.10 10:06 AM As the Democrats are turning their sights towards immigration reform, a prominent advocacy organization has warned that an amnesty for illegal immigrants would be detrimental to American workers&#8217; prospects. According to the report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) entitled Amnesty and the American Worker, record levels of immigration during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}