Salon Article RatingExpert: Immigration policies don't deter migrants - Title 42 and new rules only make things worse
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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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| "Although the wife is still waiting for a court date, the family is hopeful that she and the children will be granted asylum." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "They decided to pay a smuggler to accompany the wife and son to the Mexico-U.S. border, where in the summer of 2019 they crossed and were picked up by Border Patrol." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "And under Title 8, people who enter the country illegally could face a five-year ban from the U.S.From my work as a scholar of migration studies, I believe the new set of rules may make some of the most vulnerable migrants even more vulnerable to economic and political exploitation and violence by delaying or denying them the protection of the U.S. under federal laws and international rules about asylum." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "A migrant from Honduras discusses the hardships, including deportation and kidnapping, he and his family faced as they traveled to the U.S. seeking asylum." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Back in Monterrey, the husband, afraid to try applying for asylum after being deported but determined to reach the U.S., paid a smuggler to get him to Teessee." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Delaying immigration and asylumResearch shows that the United States' immigration policies have never deterred migrants from coming to the country; they have only made the immigration process longer and more difficult." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "These laws, among other things, set the terms for the rapid deportation of people who enter the country illegally or are not eligible for asylum." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "One new measure, for example, will deny asylum to people who arrive at the U.S. southern border without first applying for asylum online or in the country they passed through." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "After crossing into the U.S., the migrant says that despite his insistence that he was fearful of being sent back and his refusal to sign a voluntary removal form, Border Patrol officers shouted obscenities at him and physically forced him to place a thumb print on the document, then deported him to Honduras." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Title 8 rules are coming back into effect - and new measures from the Biden administration also will be in place." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "(Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Then, in 2021, when the Biden administration allowed migrants who had abandoned their Migrant Protection Protocols asylum applications to resume the process - but in the U.S. - the mother and children joined the husband in Teessee." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In March 2020, after COVID-19 hit, President Donald Trump declared a national public health emergency." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
54% : Although the wife is still waiting for a court date, the family is hopeful that she and the children will be granted asylum.48% : They decided to pay a smuggler to accompany the wife and son to the Mexico-U.S. border, where in the summer of 2019 they crossed and were picked up by Border Patrol.
47% : And under Title 8, people who enter the country illegally could face a five-year ban from the U.S.From my work as a scholar of migration studies, I believe the new set of rules may make some of the most vulnerable migrants even more vulnerable to economic and political exploitation and violence by delaying or denying them the protection of the U.S. under federal laws and international rules about asylum.
42% : A migrant from Honduras discusses the hardships, including deportation and kidnapping, he and his family faced as they traveled to the U.S. seeking asylum.
42% : Back in Monterrey, the husband, afraid to try applying for asylum after being deported but determined to reach the U.S., paid a smuggler to get him to Tennessee.
40% : Delaying immigration and asylumResearch shows that the United States' immigration policies have never deterred migrants from coming to the country; they have only made the immigration process longer and more difficult.
39% : These laws, among other things, set the terms for the rapid deportation of people who enter the country illegally or are not eligible for asylum.
39% : One new measure, for example, will deny asylum to people who arrive at the U.S. southern border without first applying for asylum online or in the country they passed through.
37% : After crossing into the U.S., the migrant says that despite his insistence that he was fearful of being sent back and his refusal to sign a voluntary removal form, Border Patrol officers shouted obscenities at him and physically forced him to place a thumb print on the document, then deported him to Honduras.
*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.