“As Perry [Iowa] residents struggle to cope with mass layoffs, Tyson Foods has its eyes on a different class of workers. The company is now offering new jobs to asylum seekers in other states …. They’re firing Americans and offering perks to illegals. This was the Democrat plan all along.”
What Washington Post found
Watters took discrete events and conjured a false narrative suggesting that U.S. citizens were being fired in Iowa in exchange for illegal immigrants being hired in New York.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jesse Watters (Fox news host) made this claim around 14 March 2024. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 March 2024, 11 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Jesse Watters has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6348944292112
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