{"id":22788,"date":"2020-04-09T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22788"},"modified":"2020-04-09T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:55:46","slug":"media-bias-illegal-immigrants-covid-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/04\/09\/media-bias-illegal-immigrants-covid-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can\u2019t Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Baffle Them With\u2026Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Quartz<\/em>, an online media outlet for international business professionals,styles itself as a provider of, \u201cbracingly\ncreative and intelligent journalism that\u2019s built for users first.\u201d And it\nclaims, \u201cWe help our audience see around corners, navigate disruption in their\nindustries, build fulfilling careers, broaden their views of the world, and\nenjoy lives rich with culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It recently put up a hybrid <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1830362\/the-effect-of-coronavirus-on-us-immigrants-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">text\/graphic<\/a> post titled, \u201cThree Charts Showing How US Immigrants Are Affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic.\u201d In that post, <em>Quartz<\/em> bends over backwards to suggest that immigrants are somehow suffering more than Americans as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/national-security\/public-health-security-national-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">COVID-19 outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here\u2019s the problem: The\ncharts aren\u2019t particularly illustrative. They simply illustrate that the\nCOVID-19 outbreak is having a significant effect on the economy of the United\nStates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, the text in between the charts is significantly more interesting than the charts themselves. Although, if you were expecting insightful analysis you would be sorely disappointed. There\u2019s nothing bracing, creative or intelligent about <em>Quartz\u2019<\/em>s approach. In fact, the textual commentary on the charts just seems to re-hash the painfully obvious: due to the global pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/03\/18\/immigration-courts-open-hearings-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">times are tough<\/a> for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u201c<em>Twenty-four percent of maids and\nhousekeeping cleaners working in the US are not citizens of the country. So are\n8% of physicians. The former have been told to stay home to limit the spread of\ncoronavirus. The latter are forced to treat patients during a shortage of the\nprotective supplies they rely on<\/em>.\u201d <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, and the\nexact same thing is true of the 76 percent of domestic assistants and the 92\npercent of doctors who are U.S. citizens. How is the situation of immigrants\nmaterially different than that of Americans? <em>Quartz<\/em> never makes that clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>\u201cNon-citizen immigrants in the US make up\n6.8% of the workforce. They work in jobs that were deemed essential fighting\nthe virus, and in industries that have seen the large layoffs and slowdowns in\nrecent weeks.\u201d<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again,\nthat\u2019s a commentary that applies to the total workforce of the United States.\nAnd, yet again, there\u2019s a failure to indicate why immigrants find themselves in\nany tougher position than anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>\u201cAccommodation and food services, health care\nand social assistance, administrative and waste services, and retail trade are\nthe industries that experienced the biggest layoffs in March, according to the\nlatest employment data.\u201d<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be\ntrue that some of these industries have a higher proportion of immigrant\nlaborers. However, the vast majority of workers in all of these fields are\nstill Americans. As a result, American workers in these fields are suffering\nthe same challenges as immigrant workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s only at the end of the\narticle that <em>Quartz<\/em> manages to raise\nthe ghost of a genuine problem for immigrants: Some immigrants earn low\nincomes. And some immigrants don\u2019t have health insurance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, even that is not\nparticularly insightful. Any compassionate person can see how it might be tough\nto be a stranger in a strange land, during a pandemic, faced with a cash flow\nshortage and no insurance. Nevertheless, <em>Quartz<\/em>\nonce again fails to show, anecdotally or through hard evidence, how migrants\nare any worse off than anyone else in America who\u2019s either out of a job, or\nworking in what TV celebrity Mike Rowe would call a \u201cdirty job,\u201d during the\nCOVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, <em>Quartz<\/em> is following an all-too-common trend in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/10\/16\/media-foreign-nationals-bias-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">immigration reporting<\/a>. Mainstream media outlets have been showing off all sorts of raw numbers and then claiming that the data they reference supports their open-borders agenda. But when those facts and figures are analyzed in context, they simply don\u2019t hold up. And data without context can be used as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/02\/26\/sanctuary-policy-california-states-rights-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">pretext<\/a> for virtually any argument. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quartz, an online media outlet for international business professionals,styles itself as a provider of, \u201cbracingly creative and intelligent journalism that\u2019s built for users first.\u201d And it claims, \u201cWe help our audience see around corners, navigate disruption in their industries, build fulfilling careers, broaden their views of the world, and enjoy lives rich with culture.\u201d It<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/04\/09\/media-bias-illegal-immigrants-covid-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":22006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5079],"tags":[8012,1524,369,275],"yst_prominent_words":[2140,8282,8285,8011,8094,8286,2616,1980,8283,8287,1997,3808,8177,2125,3088,8281,2932,8284,1977,1937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22789,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22788\/revisions\/22789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22788"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}