CLAIM: Federal visa worker programs bring “tens of thousands” of foreign workers into the United States.
VERDICT: False. Federal agencies bring at least one million non-immigrant foreign workers into the United States each year.
The error was included in a New York Times article on April 24 about President Donald Trump’s unprecedented April 22 shift in immigration policy.
The article began accurately, saying, “President Trump’s decision to suspend family-based immigration because of the coronavirus is the beginning of a broader strategy to reduce the flow of foreigners into the United States, Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s immigration agenda, told a group of conservative allies on Thursday.”
But the two authors — Michael Shear and Maggie Haberman — quickly showed their ignorance of the workforce issue, even though the federal policy of inflating the labor supply has crippled at least two presidencies and even allowed a New York real-estate developer to take the White House in 2016.
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What did it take to get the true numbers, ten seconds with a voice search on a smartphone? Shear and Haberman are tools.
ReplyDeleteThe NYT is dropping the ball big time. Today they listed the top hot spots in the USA and they listed salisbury Maryland at 14th, and claim we have about 1,500 cases when we don't have anywhere near that number.
ReplyDeleteThey are either guessing, or mean salisbury NC.
York city is not only a hotspot it's a hot mess. Consider the source they think they're the center of the universe when in reality they are of center of the uranias
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