When you see that PBS News Hour’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, has filed a 10-minute-long overview of the history of immigration policies in the United States, you arrive prepared for an onslaught of bias on an issue Barron-Lopez has been particularly liberal on. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that Tuesday’s report actually took a balanced look at the topic.
Her main source was David Leonhardt, a center-left writer for the New York Times (which makes him a dangerous conservative in Times land.)
She described President Lyndon Johnson push “to repeal the quota system,” which proponents claimed “would prioritize skilled workers and family members of people in the U.S., but would not increase the overall number of migrants.”
Leonhardt opined, “The law did in fact transform our immigration system and, in particular, led to vastly more immigration.” Why?…
