Mother Jones Article RatingBiden promised not "another foot of wall." Now, he's restarting construction.
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| "But Biden's decision to move forward on the wall comes amid intensifying pressures -- including from within his own party -- to clamp down on border crossings." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "For a long time, it seemed like Biden agreed." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "A wall does nothing to deter people who are fleeing poverty and violence from coming to the United States, wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a statement." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "On Thursday, the Biden administration aounced that it will build an additional 20 miles of the border wall in Starr County, Texas, a busy crossing point for migrants along the Rio Grande." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "This is not the only turnabout on immigration from the Biden administration this week." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "When campaigning for the presidency, Biden promised that there would not be another foot of wall constructed under his leadership." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Meanwhile, GOP leaders have revived the clamor to oust Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom they've blamed for calamities ranging from drug cartels to the fentanyl crisis." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "This spring, after the lapse of Title 42, a pandemic-era restriction limiting asylum seekers from applying for protection, Biden put new rules in place that advocates say are just as restrictive." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "As Biden prepares to expand Trump's border wall, it won't be the first time that his take on immigration has hewn perilously close to his predecessor's." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration insists that it had no choice but to extend the wall because the funds had been appropriated by the Trump administration and must be put to that use." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration insists that it had no choice but to extend the wall because the funds had been appropriated by the Trump administration and must be put to that use." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Several Republican lawmakers have filed articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, alleging that the secretary has been derelict in his duties." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "When asked on Thursday if he thought the border wall is effective, Biden responded curtly: No.Still, the move is drawing intense criticism from Democratic lawmakers, who see the border wall as ineffective and inhumane." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "And despite his condemnation of Trump's physical wall, Biden's own answer to the situation -- the construction of a massive virtual wall, replete with hundreds of surveillance towers dotted along the US-Mexico boundary -- is far from a meaningful departure." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "And despite his condemnation of Trump's physical wall, Biden's own answer to the situation -- the construction of a massive virtual wall, replete with hundreds of surveillance towers dotted along the US-Mexico boundary -- is far from a meaningful departure." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But Biden's decision to move forward on the wall comes amid intensifying pressures -- including from within his own party -- to clamp down on border crossings." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The invasion at our southern border is a national disgrace, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote this week on X, formerly Twitter." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "For all its criticisms of Trump's immigration measures, the Biden administration has frequently come under fire for its own, similarly harsh, policies." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "For all its criticisms of Trump's immigration measures, the Biden administration has frequently come under fire for its own, similarly harsh, policies." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The move is a sharp turn from President Joe Biden's long-standing criticism of the US-Mexico border wall, a controversial hallmark of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration into the country." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The move is a sharp turn from President Joe Biden's long-standing criticism of the US-Mexico border wall, a controversial hallmark of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration into the country." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
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32% : But Biden's decision to move forward on the wall comes amid intensifying pressures -- including from within his own party -- to clamp down on border crossings.*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.