Federal appeals court to allow controversial Texas immigration law to take effect, if SCOTUS doesn't intervene

  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    60% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-20% Negative

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"Judge David Alan Ezra wrote in his Thursday decision to halt the law that If allowed to proceed, SB 4 could open the door to each state passing its own version of immigration laws."
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12% Conservative
"Last week, a federal judge in Austin, Texas, blocked the state government from implementing Senate Bill 4, which would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally."
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-26% Liberal
"Over the weekend, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of Ezra's decision but put its ruling on hold for seven days, allowing time for the Biden administration to go to the Supreme Court."
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0% Conservative
"The law, signed into law by Abbott in December, immediately raised concerns among immigration advocates of increased racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted deportations by state authorities in Texas, where Latinos represent 40"
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-20% Liberal
"Texas appealed the ruling, with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott saying, We will not back down in our fight to protect our state -- and our nation -- from President Biden's border crisis."
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4% Conservative
"Texas appealed the ruling, with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott saying, We will not back down in our fight to protect our state -- and our nation -- from President Biden's border crisis."
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4% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Judge David Alan Ezra wrote in his Thursday decision to halt the law that "If allowed to proceed, SB 4 could open the door to each state passing its own version of immigration laws.
37% : Last week, a federal judge in Austin, Texas, blocked the state government from implementing Senate Bill 4, which would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.

*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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