Obama’s top economic advisor presents two different faces when discussing labor market, immigration -- By Neil Munro, The Daily Caller

When he’s talking to reporters, the chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors champions the president’s top legislative goal — boosting the number of legal immigrants.

But when he’s talking to his fellow economists about Americans’ low wages, Jason Furman turns 180 degrees — by pushing the contradictory goal of having a “tighter labor market” where employers can't find enough workers.

That West Wing split between the president and his economic advisor is a gift for GOP reformers, such as Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is pushing for a low-immigration, high-wage economic policy.

“The President’s top economic advisor has said we need a tighter labor market — a statement completely at odds with the Administration’s foremost legislative goal… [which is] an immigration plan that will dramatically surge the number of workers competing for jobs," Sessions said in a statement to The Daily Caller.

In numerous speeches, Obama has pressured and pleaded with House Republicans to back the Senate’s “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” rewrite. The Senate bill would provide amnesty for at least 10 million illegals, and roughly double the annual inflow of 1 million new immigrants and 650,000 guest-workers into the U.S. labor market.

That market is already glutted with millions of unemployed Americans — and four million American youths turn 18 each year.

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