8-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol custody in Texas as agency seeks to ease crowding

May 18, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Last week, the Border Patrol began releasing migrants in the U.S. without notices to appear in immigration court, instead directing them to report to an immigration office within 60 days."
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-2% Liberal
"The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, the day before pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier, according to a court filing."
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-12% Liberal
"An 8-year-old girl died Wednesday in Border Patrol custody, authorities said, a rare occurrence that comes as the agency struggles with overcrowding."
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-24% Liberal
"Upbeat, McCarthy said it was important to have an agreement in principle by the weekend if they hope to get to a House vote next week."
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14% Conservative
"With hopes for a breakthrough as soon as this weekend, President Joe Biden and McCarthy tapped their top representatives to work out a deal after talks with a larger contingent stalled."
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4% Conservative
"With hopes for a breakthrough as soon as this weekend, President Joe Biden and McCarthy tapped their top representatives to work out a deal after talks with a larger contingent stalled."
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4% Conservative
"Steve Ricchetti, Biden's longtime aide who is now counselor to the president, along with Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young and legislative affairs director Louisa Terrell are representing the administration."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Another Republican, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, the chairman of the Financial Services team, newly joined Thursday."
Positive
8% Conservative
"But Biden opened the door to some work extra requirements for non-health care programs like Medicaid, and the discussions over food stamps and cash assistance programs are ongoing."
Positive
6% Conservative
"McCarthy has vowed to abide by House rules that require 72 hours notice before voting on any bill, meaning an agreement is needed this weekend if the House wants to vote before it leaves at the end of next week for the Memorial Day recess."
Positive
6% Conservative
"McCarthy told CNN and others at the Capitol."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Biden cut short the rest of his trip to Papua New Guinea and Australia so he could return early to Washington."
Positive
2% Conservative
"We've got a lot more work to do, McHenry said after Thursday's session."
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2% Conservative
"This is hostage taking, Jeffries said."
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0% Conservative
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told senators Thursday, as they prepared to depart for their own weeklong recess, said they need to be ready to return with 24 hours notice to vote, if needed."
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0% Conservative
"A White House official said Bruce Reed, the deputy chief of staff, is traveling with the president in Japan to keep in contact and keep Biden informed at the G7."
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-2% Liberal
"Jeffries noted that many House Republicans themselves, including McCarthy, voted against enhanced work requirements for food stamp recipients in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program just a few years ago."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Jeffries noted that many House Republicans themselves, including McCarthy, voted against enhanced work requirements for food stamp recipients in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program just a few years ago."
Positive
0% Conservative
"House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday the Republican proposal for tougher work requirements on recipients of government aide is a nonstarter."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Biden's own climate adviser John Podesta met this week with some House Democrats as the administration, too, seeks changes that would more quickly unleash clean energy projects and upgrade transmission lines to fight climate change."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"A default could trigger a recession, stop military paychecks and raise interest rates for years to come, Harris said."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"McCarthy's Republicans want to roll back spending to fiscal 2022 levels and cap aual increases at just 1"
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Progressives are also pushing Biden to invoke the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling, something the president has signaled he's not yet inclined to do.__ Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Chris Megerian, Stephen Groves and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington and White House Correspondent Zeke Miller in Hiroshima contributed to this report."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Negotiators from the White House labored Thursday over the U.S. debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's emissaries at the Capitol, grinding through head-to-head talks trying to strike a budget deal to avert a looming economic crisis."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Biden was briefed on the negotiations on Friday morning in Japan, where he is attending the Group of Seven summit, the White House said, adding that negotiators told the president that steady progress is being made.This does not have to be a crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris said during a virtual meeting of community leaders on Thursday."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Biden was briefed on the negotiations on Friday morning in Japan, where he is attending the Group of Seven summit, the White House said, adding that negotiators told the president that steady progress is being made.This does not have to be a crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris said during a virtual meeting of community leaders on Thursday."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"All sides are racing devise a budget-cutting deal that Democrats and Republicans can live with, the price to be paid as McCarthy's newly empowered House Republicans try to extract steep spending reductions."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"I'm confident that we'll get the agreement on the budget and America will not default, Biden said Wednesday before he departed."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Biden and McCarthy have mostly cooled what had been heated rhetoric over the Republican demands."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Biden and McCarthy have mostly cooled what had been heated rhetoric over the Republican demands."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"McCarthy himself said he plaed to stop by some of the talks, and has tasked Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., who is a close ally, for the Republicans."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"McCarthy himself said he plaed to stop by some of the talks, and has tasked Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., who is a close ally, for the Republicans."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Showing the pressure McCarthy faces from his right flank, the conservative House Freedom Caucus said in statement there should be no further discussion until the Senate approves the House-passed Republican bill."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"And Biden already said he would veto it."
Negative
-44% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Last week, the Border Patrol began releasing migrants in the U.S. without notices to appear in immigration court, instead directing them to report to an immigration office within 60 days.
44% : The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, the day before pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier, according to a court filing.
38% : An 8-year-old girl died Wednesday in Border Patrol custody, authorities said, a rare occurrence that comes as the agency struggles with overcrowding.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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