KSL 5 TV Article RatingBiden says border walls don't work as administration bypasses laws to build more barriers in South Texas
Oct 05, 2023 View Original Article
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48% Moderately Conservative
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- Policy Leaning
14% Somewhat Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
94% Negative
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| "CBP sought public input between August and September, according to the agency." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "This week, Mayorkas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Homeland Security adviser Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall will meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City for aual security talks." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The Department of Homeland Security had concluded it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in Starr County, Texas, along the US border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the filing posted in the US Federal Registry." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The funds needed to be spent by the end of fiscal year 2023, prompting the administration to choose to move forward this year with construction in south Texas, according to a source familiar.US Customs and Border Protection had previously aounced plans to design and construct up to 20 miles of new border barrier systems in Starr County, including light poles and lighting, gates, cameras and access roads, among other systems." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Migration along the southern border has been a relentless focus of the Republican presidential primary field and conservative media, and leading Democrats, including the mayors of New York and Chicago, have begun publicly demanding stronger efforts by the federal government to provide resources to accommodate arrivals." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Migration is expected to be a topic of discussion." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "This week, Mayorkas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Homeland Security adviser Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall will meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City for aual security talks." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "This week, Mayorkas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Homeland Security adviser Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall will meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City for aual security talks." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "I can't stop that, Biden told reporters in the Oval Office." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The Department of Homeland Security had concluded it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in Starr County, Texas, along the US border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the filing posted in the US Federal Registry." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Construction of the wall will be paid for through a 2019 appropriations bill that fueled money specifically to a border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, and according to Mayorkas, DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas, Mayorkas said in the notice." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Asked whether he believes the border wall works, Biden answered, No.Border Patrol reported nearly 300,000 encounters in the Rio Grande Valley sector between last October and August, according to federal data." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Among the laws the Biden administration is bypassing to build the wall are several of the same statutes the administration has in the past moved to protect, including: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Washington (CNN) -- President Joe Biden said Thursday that he doesn't believe border walls work, even as his administration said it will waive 26 laws to build additional border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley amid heightened political pressure over migration." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Biden - who, as a candidate, vowed that there will not be another foot of border wall constructed on his watch - defended the decision to reporters Thursday, saying that he tried to get the money appropriated for other purposes but was unsuccessful." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But the move comes at a time when a new surge of migrants is straining federal and local resources and placing heavy political pressure on the Biden administration to address a sprawling crisis, and the notice cited high illegal entry." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Biden has been plagued by issues on the border since his first months in office, when the US faced a surge of unaccompanied migrant children that caught officials flatfooted." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But a new surge of migrants has placed additional pressure on federal resources and tested Biden's latest border policies only months after going into place, prompting fresh criticism from Republicans and concern within the administration over a politically delicate issue." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : CBP sought public input between August and September, according to the agency.54% : This week, Mayorkas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Homeland Security adviser Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall will meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City for annual security talks.
52% : The Department of Homeland Security had concluded "it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads" in Starr County, Texas, along the US border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the filing posted in the US Federal Registry.
51% : The funds needed to be spent by the end of fiscal year 2023, prompting the administration to choose to move forward this year with construction in south Texas, according to a source familiar.US Customs and Border Protection had previously announced plans to design and construct up to 20 miles of new border barrier systems in Starr County, including light poles and lighting, gates, cameras and access roads, among other systems.
50% : And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated.
50% : Migration along the southern border has been a relentless focus of the Republican presidential primary field and conservative media, and leading Democrats, including the mayors of New York and Chicago, have begun publicly demanding stronger efforts by the federal government to provide resources to accommodate arrivals.
49% : Migration is expected to be a topic of discussion.
*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.