Who said there is no reason to screen? There’s every reason to vet people - the question is which data is most relevant and predictive, and if you have good data on the individual, is their country of origin still a relevant screener?
The particular data in that chart might be “accurate” (it’s being posted by Trump, so I wouldn’t bet my life on it) but it’s also crude and arbitrary. Why do UK and Somalia get broken out as their own nations, but 650 million people get lumped together as North America? Is that really what you’d want to base decisions on?
There’s an active choice being made to either look at Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans as separate and distinct societies, or put them all in the same basket. Why someone makes that choice in one direction or another might just be because they have a preferred narrative in mind and they’re going to twist the data to lead to their preferred conclusions. Both would be able to justify their conclusions with the “data.”
