Federal Judge Blocks Sweeping New Immigration Law in Texas

Feb 29, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    92% 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

-21% Negative

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"Lawyers for the Biden administration, during the hearing and in their filings, argued that the Texas law conflicted with numerous federal laws that provide a process for handling immigration proceedings and deportations."
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0% Conservative
"To allow Texas to permanently supersede federal directives on the basis of an invasion would amount to nullification of federal law and authority -- a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War, he wrote."
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-14% Liberal
"President Joe Biden was also scheduled Thursday to visit a section of the Texas border, in Brownsville."
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12% Conservative
"Lawyers for the Biden administration, during the hearing and in their filings, argued that the Texas law conflicted with numerous federal laws that provide a process for handling immigration proceedings and deportations."
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-12% Liberal
"Texas has been fighting with the Biden administration on several legal fronts, including the state's placement last year of a 1,000-foot barrier of buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande and, separately, the installation of miles of concertina wire along the bank of the river."
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-8% Liberal
"In granting a preliminary injunction on Thursday, Ezra, who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, said the federal government was likely to eventually win the case on the merits."
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-10% Liberal
"Gov. Greg Abbott, who has moved aggressively over the past three years to create a state-level system of border enforcement, said he would immediately appeal the decision."
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-10% Liberal
"The ruling, by Judge David Ezra of the Western District of Texas, was a victory for the Biden administration, which had argued that the new state law violated federal statutes and the U.S. Constitution."
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-12% Liberal
"The judge's ruling was handed down shortly before Abbott was set to appear with former President Donald Trump in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, where the state's enforcement efforts have been most aggressive."
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-28% Liberal
"The judge's ruling was handed down shortly before Abbott was set to appear with former President Donald Trump in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, where the state's enforcement efforts have been most aggressive."
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-28% Liberal
"Under pressure from immigration hard-liners and former Trump administration officials, Abbott said in November 2022 that he had invoked the invasion clause."
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-32% Liberal
"We will not back down in our fight to protect our state -- and our nation -- from President Biden's border crisis, Abbott said in a statement."
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-6% Liberal
"We will not back down in our fight to protect our state -- and our nation -- from President Biden's border crisis, Abbott said in a statement."
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-6% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Lawyers for the Biden administration, during the hearing and in their filings, argued that the Texas law conflicted with numerous federal laws that provide a process for handling immigration proceedings and deportations.
43% : "To allow Texas to permanently supersede federal directives on the basis of an invasion would amount to nullification of federal law and authority -- a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War," he wrote.

*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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