NPR's disappointing segment on immigration and American workers over the weekend was marked by unsupported insinuations, red herrings and a creeping denial of the law of supply and demand.
The sure-fire way to learn what happened at yesterday's Senate Judiciary hearing about Trump's zero-tolerance policy is to read the testimonies and watch the hearing in full.
If you don't have 3-plus hours to kill, here are the takeaways from 5 news stories -- starting with the items you are least likely to have read about.
DACA has never been limited to people who "crossed into the United States illegally," or to those who did so "through no fault of their own." Nor do "immigrants" qualify for DACA.
These errors - as persistent as they are inaccurate - reaffirm Nate Silver's observation after the 2016 election: "... the conditions of political journalism are poor for crowd wisdom and ripe for groupthink."
Betterage's Law: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Beyond the clickbait headlines was a pretty ho-hum finding: immigration grows the population ... and there are consequences.
As is so often the case, the Times' story struggles to find room for the perspective of the people who stand to benefit from restrictions on non-immigrant guest worker programs: American workers.
The Goodlatte bill would close the asylum loopholes that open-borders organizers of the caravan hope to exploit. Since 2009, merely claiming a "credible fear" is usually enough to be released into the U.S. indefinitely, and frivolous claims have overloaded the system to the point that applicants with legitimate claims wait years to have their cases heard.
An ad campaign for H-1B reform in San Francisco's BART train stations became a minor national story last week, but to get the reaction of the ad's target audience (American tech workers), you have to skip the news reports and look in the comments.