Fox News: Migrants Are Spreading Covid-19 Worse Than the U.S.-Born Population
Tucker Carlson is known for his white supremacist ideas, previously calling Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” and saying that immigrants to the U.S. made the country “dirtier.” So it’s no surprise that Carlson tried to blame the covid-19 pandemic on immigrants during some of his segments in 2021.
“Illegal aliens are now exempt from the public health measures that have been imposed by force on the rest of us by the U.S. government. Illegal aliens come and go as they please. No one seems to care if they spread deadly viruses to the rest of the American population. It’s hard to believe that’s actually happening, but it is happening,” Carlson said on March 17.
But it’s simply not true. Doctors have looked at this issue again and again, explaining that the surges in case numbers during 2021 were not found to be the result of people moving along the U.S.-Mexico border. But it should be no surprise that Carlson would try to float this idea that migrants are inherently dirty. It’s been a common anti-immigrant trope throughout history.
