After Devastating DACA Ruling, Dreamers Vow to Push for Legalization - CounterPunch.org

Jul 27, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -60% Very Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    72% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    78% Negative

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.

Sentiments

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"Undocumented workers are far more vulnerable to employer exploitation simply because of their lack of legal status."
Positive
28% Conservative
"There is a clear economic case to be made for legalizing undocumented immigrants, even outside the traditional bounds of seeing them as a source of cheap labor for the agricultural and apparel industry."
Positive
20% Conservative
"Republican officials in Texas are celebrating a major political win after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program."
Positive
16% Conservative
"She suggested that a more direct pathway to cementing DACA was via the legislative process so that it is no longer beholden to the whims of Republican attorneys general, state governors or presidents."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"The ruling also means that those immigrants who might have been able to adjust their status under DACA are now eligible for possible deportation."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Worryingly, it is the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough who decides if legalizing DACA through budget reconciliation is acceptable or not, and immigrant advocates slammed Biden's aouncement that he would defer to whatever the unelected official decides on the matter."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"DACA has been a GOP target since 2012 when then-President Barack Obama first created it and then in 2014 expanded it via executive action."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Padilla is pushing for legalization pathways to be included in negotiations over an infrastructure package and is confident that Biden backs him, saying, I believe the White House is supportive of both an ambitious infrastructure package, and as substantive immigration reform as you can achieve in any way possible."
Positive
14% Conservative
"To that end, Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) just released a $6 trillion budget blueprint that includes $150 billion in funding toward pathways for legal status for immigrants including DACA holders."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"It has faced numerous Republican-led legal challenges and subsequent court rulings as well as an outright suspension of the program during Donald Trump's administration."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"After the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled against Trump's suspension of the program -- saying that the Trump administration did not provide adequate justification for ending it -- an estimated 30,000 health care workers with DACA status were protected from deportation and allowed to continue their critical work."
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-24% Liberal
"Although President Joe Biden has already aounced that his Justice Department will appeal Hanen's ruling, Flores worries such a legal challenge will simply take too long, leaving countless numbers of potential DACA applicants stranded, unable to gain employment and subject to deportation even though the United States is the only country most have known."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Worryingly, it is the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough who decides if legalizing DACA through budget reconciliation is acceptable or not, and immigrant advocates slammed Biden's aouncement that he would defer to whatever the unelected official decides on the matter."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"DACA has been a GOP target since 2012 when then-President Barack Obama first created it and then in 2014 expanded it via executive action."
Negative
-24% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Undocumented workers are far more vulnerable to employer exploitation simply because of their lack of legal status.
60% : There is a clear economic case to be made for legalizing undocumented immigrants, even outside the traditional bounds of seeing them as a source of cheap labor for the agricultural and apparel industry.
58% : Republican officials in Texas are celebrating a major political win after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
45% : She suggested that a more direct pathway to cementing DACA was via the legislative process so that it is no longer beholden to the whims of Republican attorneys general, state governors or presidents.
42% : The ruling also means that those immigrants who might have been able to adjust their status under DACA are now eligible for possible deportation.
35% : Worryingly, it is the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough who decides if legalizing DACA through budget reconciliation is acceptable or not, and immigrant advocates slammed Biden's announcement that he would defer to whatever the unelected official decides on the matter.
29% : DACA has been a GOP target since 2012 when then-President Barack Obama first created it and then in 2014 expanded it via executive action.

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