Migrants, meatpackers and a Fox News host's false narrative Fox News host Jesse Watters recently put Tyson Foods, the nation's largest meatpacker, in the spotlight. With his platform on Fox, he generated a firestorm on the right by claiming that Tyson was firing workers in Perry, Iowa, "one of the great American suburbs," and hiring undocumented immigrants elsewhere in the country. Watters gilded the lily by bringing on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and saying: "I didn't think it was legal, Senator, to ax American workers and hire en masse illegal aliens." Vance replied: "Well, it shouldn't be, Jesse, and we're certainly going to look into whether we can change that, assuming Tyson is operating legally, which we don't even know if they are." Conservatives vowed a boycott of the company's products. This Sturm und Drang is severely misplaced, based on some basic misunderstandings — or deliberate misinformation. It's a textbook example of how events taken out of context can be weaponized for political purposes. We dove into the case and documented how Watters created a false narrative. Click the link below to learn more. Also: James Comer sums up his 'evidence' of Biden crimes. It's scant. The chair of the House Oversight Committee laid out his case against President Biden and we fact-checked it. Click this link for the full report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. No, Donald Trump, migrants aren't 'killing' Social Security and Medicare The former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee often says he will never touch Social Security and Medicare. He posted on social media the statement below after coming under fire for musing on CNBC's "Squawk Box" about ways to make the programs more efficient, using the politically potent word "cutting" that earned attacks from the Biden campaign. "Unlike the Democrats, who are KILLING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE by allowing the INVASION OF THE MIGRANTS, I will NOT, under any circumstance, allow either of these two precious GEMS to be even touched under a Trump Administration. Biden is killing them both with the INVASION, while at the same time destroying our Country!" We examined Trump's claim that Democrats are "killing" the programs because of the surge of migrants at the border. Nothing could be further from the truth. Click the link below to learn more about how migrants actually put more into Social Security and Medicare than they likely are ever to get out of the programs, and see the Pinocchio rating. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. About the cats: It's a Friday and sometimes our fact checks deal with heavy subjects. So we hope to bring a smile to your face. Scroll down to read other Fox News-related fact checks | 
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