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Late Monday night with more details given on Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would be signing an executive order to limit immigration into the U.S. in order to prevent new coronavirus infections, and protect American jobs as state economies reopened. All three of the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were in harmony as their liberal choir sang a song decrying the “hardline” policy as just a racist “dog whistle” for his base.
ABC’s World News Tonight was by far and away the most outspoken against the executive order, which was still being written. “There are strict orders already in place. But even a temporary pause would be unprecedented in this country,” whined senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega, as if a global pandemic of the current scale wasn’t already unprecedented.
Vega also scoffed at the idea that Trump wanted to issue the order to protect Americans from the virus, since many health care workers were immigrants.
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