Biden Chooses the Wrong Approach to Closing the Border

  • Bias Rating

    26% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    82% 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

Overall Sentiment

13% Positive

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"More persoel are required in every aspect of border security and they are needed in large numbers."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Customs and Border Protection said the train crossing closures in Texas would allow the agency to redirect persoel to assist Border Patrol in taking migrants into custody."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The aouncement comes as the White House is engaging with Senate Republicans on a plan to tighten immigration policy and ramp up border security, though the two sides have yet to reach a deal."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The Biden administration has pushed for significant new resources in several components of the Homeland Security Department and other agencies to boost staffing levels throughout the immigration system."
Positive
10% Conservative
"That's something that Biden could take care of with a swipe of his pen if he really wished to."
Positive
10% Conservative
"President Joe Biden has recently begun making some long-overdue moves to get the southern border under control."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Biden already closed the Eagle Pass border to vehicular traffic."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Even though it took significant pressure and arm-twisting by the House GOP to bring him to this point, it is such a rare occasion that I get the chance to commend Biden about anything he does, I won't pass up the opportunity now."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"(Government Executive)Two international railway crossings between the United States and Mexico closed on Monday as the Biden administration scrambles to detain and process record numbers of migrants arriving at the border."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Biden has ordered the closure of two international rail crossing points, with the persoel working there to be redeployed to assist with the detention and processing of migrants."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"If Biden really wanted to impress us on an issue that is significantly contributing to his collapsing poll numbers, he could have backed down from his initial orders and restarted construction on the border wall."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The damage that's already been caused by the Biden border crisis is immeasurable at this point, but it shouldn't be left to the next president to clean up his mess."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Trump worked with AMLO admirably and successfully on immigration issues, but Joe Biden has seemed either unwilling or unable to establish that sort of cooperative relationship."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Trump worked with AMLO admirably and successfully on immigration issues, but Joe Biden has seemed either unwilling or unable to establish that sort of cooperative relationship."
Positive
8% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : More personnel are required in every aspect of border security and they are needed in large numbers.
55% : Customs and Border Protection said the train crossing closures in Texas would allow the agency to redirect personnel to assist Border Patrol in taking migrants into custody.
44% : The announcement comes as the White House is engaging with Senate Republicans on a plan to tighten immigration policy and ramp up border security, though the two sides have yet to reach a deal.

*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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