Mother Jones Article RatingBiden vastly expands "protected areas" where ICE can't arrest immigrants
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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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| "The new policy focuses instead on the unscrupulous employers who exploit undocumented workers." | Positive | 36% Conservative |
| "Places that provide social services essential to people in need: food banks, domestic violence shelters, facilities that serve disabled persons." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Last month, Mayorkas said that being in the country illegally is no longer enough to detain and deport a person, as he issued new rules that directed agents to focus on immigrants who are a threat to national security, public safety, and border security." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "When we conduct an enforcement action - whether it is an arrest, search, service of a subpoena, or other action - we need to consider many factors, including the location in which we are conducting the action and its impact on other people and broader societal interests, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wrote in the memo issuing the new policy." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Collectively, these new policies have been well-received by immigrant rights activists and advocacy organizations, though they come as Biden's actions at the US-Mexico border seem to be sending a very different message." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "So, while some of these recent changes are promising, the future of immigrant rights under President Biden will still need more than words." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration also aounced earlier this month that it would make changes to worksite immigration arrests." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "While in theory sensitive locations remained protected during the Trump era, agents were seen in courthouses and hospitals, which increased the level of fear in undocumented communities and in households with mixed-status families." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "And in a total reversal from the previous administration, Mayorkas' DHS included this statement in the new detention and deportation guidelines:" | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In the end, of course, Obama was dubbed the Deporter in Chief, removing well over a million people during his time in office -- a large percentage of whom did not have criminal convictions." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Human rights groups in particular have criticized the administration's treatment of Haitian migrants in Texas, its continuation of a Trump-era border closure policy that has virtually shut down the asylum-seeking process at the border, and its restart of the cruel Remain in Mexico policy." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration issued a new policy Wednesday that directs agents to stay away from playgrounds, domestic violence shelters, healthcare facilities, public demonstrations, disaster response centers, and other locations." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "that years ago the Obama administration, with Biden as its VP, promised a similar shift in enforcement priorities, saying it would deport felons not families." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "that years ago the Obama administration, with Biden as its VP, promised a similar shift in enforcement priorities, saying it would deport felons not families." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Last month, Mayorkas said that being in the country illegally is no longer enough to detain and deport a person, as he issued new rules that directed agents to focus on immigrants who are a threat to national security, public safety, and border security." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
68% : The new policy focuses instead on the "unscrupulous employers" who exploit undocumented workers.53% : Places that provide social services "essential to people in need": food banks, domestic violence shelters, facilities that serve disabled persons.
32% : Last month, Mayorkas said that being in the country illegally is no longer enough to detain and deport a person, as he issued new rules that directed agents to focus on immigrants who are a threat to "national security, public safety, and border security."
*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.