On ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked his guests to respond to a Heritage Foundation claim that "low-skill" workers take more from the country than they give in taxes, and increased immigration would heighten that dynamic.
Stephanopoulos did not say that:
1) The Heritage Foundation is a conservative operation, let alone a conservative operation with a history of shoddy research.
2) The "low-skill" report was debunked by the Immigration Policy Center as "one in a long line of deeply flawed economic analyses which claim to estimate the contributions and 'costs' of workers".
In turn, Stephanopoulos gave Heritage a credibility it does not deserve, giving the impression its claims are objective fact.
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