When you see that PBS News Hour’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, has filed a 10-minute-long overview of the history of immigration policies in the United States, you arrive prepared for an onslaught of bias on an issue Barron-Lopez has been particularly liberal on. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that Tuesday’s report actually took a balanced look at the topic.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Since its founding days, the United States had mostly open borders, welcoming immigrants from across the world to work and build lives here. In the late 1800s, record numbers of migrants from Italy, Greece and Central and Eastern Europe made the journey on newly invented steamships to the United States. Many, especially in America's now crowded cities, began to question the open door policy.
