Commentary: Biden's border policies turn a win into a loss

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Published Jul 16, 2021
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Policy Leaning Analysis

This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of 46% Conservative:

  • 4 positive sentiments and 1 negative sentiment for Border control.
  • 1 positive sentiment and 2 negative sentiments for Border Wall.


Politician Portrayal Analysis:

This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 92% Negative and bias score of -48% Liberal:

1 positive sentiment for Kamala Harris
4 negative sentiments for Donald Trump
2 negative sentiments for Joe Biden


Policies:

Border control
Refugee Migration
Border Wall

Politicians:

Kamala Harris
Donald Trump
Joe Biden

Sentiments

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26% "With the floodgates to illegal immigration wide open once again, drug cartels and human traffickers are cashing in and""
22% "Our leaders should act now to promote legal immigration, prevent illegal immigration and secure the border from drugs, human trafficking and the cartels on ..."
8% "He continued to build the border wall, as the Border Patrol requested.""
6% Charged with addressing the border, Vice President Kamala Harris finally went there recently, stopping by an El Paso Border Patrol facility, miles from the ..."
0% "And he reached cooperative agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras requiring those countries to take back any migrants who had sought asylum with ..."
-2% "We know how to do it: Continue building the border wall; reinstate the Remain in Mexico program and the safe third country requirements and ..."
-8% "It immediately stopped border wall construction, halted the Remain in Mexico program, tore up the asylum cooperative agreements, ended most deportations, requested congressional amnesty ..."
-10% Rather than let the situation at the border continue to deteriorate, Trump took executive action."
-28% "Knowing that the Border Patrol is being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of illegal entries, drug traffickers have picked up the pace, too.""
-38% "The Biden administration has systematically abandoned the border security policies and immigration reforms that enabled the Trump administration to turn back the tide of ..."

We have listed the top 10 sentiments. More sentiments do exist. Please review the full article for more information.


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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : With the floodgates to illegal immigration wide open once again, drug cartels and human traffickers are cashing in and
61% : Our leaders should act now to promote legal immigration, prevent illegal immigration and secure the border from drugs, human trafficking and the cartels on both sides of the border.
54% : He continued to build the border wall, as the Border Patrol requested.
50% : And he reached cooperative agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras requiring those countries to take back any migrants who had sought asylum with the U.S. without first seeking protection in a "safe third country" they had passed through on their way to the U.S.
49% : We know how to do it: Continue building the border wall; reinstate the Remain in Mexico program and the safe third country requirements and agreements; consistently use Title 42 authority until Covid-19 is no longer a global pandemic threat; stop welcoming and admitting unaccompanied immigrant children into the U.S.; end "catch-and-release"; enforce existing immigration laws, including deportations; and expand employment verification to ensure employers hire only work-authorized employees.
46% : It immediately stopped border wall construction, halted the "Remain in Mexico" program, tore up the asylum cooperative agreements, ended most deportations, requested congressional amnesty for the untold millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally, decreased use of Title 42 health protections, and repeatedly messaged that no unaccompanied immigrant child would be turned away.
36% : Knowing that the Border Patrol is being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of illegal entries, drug traffickers have picked up the pace, too.
31% : The Biden administration has systematically abandoned the border security policies and immigration reforms that enabled the Trump administration to turn back the tide of illegal immigration.

*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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