The Dallas Morning News Article RatingGov. Abbott sends letter to U.S. governors, calling for fight against Biden asylum rules
May 16, 2023 View Original Article
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36% Medium Conservative
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65% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
42% Medium Conservative
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| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aounced Tuesday his plans to send 100 highway troopers, 200 law enforcement officers and 800 National Guard soldiers, plus boats and planes to the southern border in Texas." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Texas governor asks other state leaders for law enforcement and financial support for southern border security costs." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "The U.S. aounced new rules for anyone traveling through another country to qualify for asylum." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "While Title 42 prevented many from seeking asylum, it carried no legal consequences for repeated attempts to cross the border." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Texas has spent more than $4.5 billion on border security since 2021 and placed hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars toward the border wall, according to Abbott." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration's new measures took effect Friday as the nation's asylum policies transitioned away from Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that was used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "After Thursday, migrants face being barred from entering the U.S. for five years and possible criminal prosecution." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The measure that aims to encourage legal pathways to asylum and cut out unscrupulous smugglers has been slammed with litigation from both sides of the aisle." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Migrants who show up at the border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through will be denied asylum." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The ACLU and its partners argue the U.S. legal code does not allow the administration to restrict access to asylum based on a migrant's maer of entry or whether they've applied for asylum elsewhere." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "In his letter, Abbott asked that other states help fund border security through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which lets states share resources with other states in response to a disaster or an emergency." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "In a two-page letter sent to governors across the country, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked his peers Tuesday to join his fight against President Joe Biden's new asylum measures by sending funding and all available law enforcement to the southern border." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to deploy 450 Texas National Guard members, in addition to the soldiers Abbott said can be positioned at the border through Operation Lone Star." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to deploy 450 Texas National Guard members, in addition to the soldiers Abbott said can be positioned at the border through Operation Lone Star." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas credited the calmer-than-anticipated policy transition last week to U.S. authorities' years of preparation." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aounced Tuesday his plans to send 100 highway troopers, 200 law enforcement officers and 800 National Guard soldiers, plus boats and planes to the southern border in Texas." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Michelle Saenz-Rodriguez, an immigration attorney and co-founder of Saenz-Rodriguez & Associates in Dallas, said Abbott's letter is the latest in a series of political plays." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration introduced the new asylum rules in a bid to get asylum-seekers to seek lawful pathways." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "More than 24,000 border patrol agents, thousands of contractors and 1,000 asylum officers and judges surged to the 2,000-mile stretch of the U.S. Mexico border, Mayorkas said at a White House briefing last week." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion late Friday in federal court for a temporary restraining order on the Biden administration policy that would allow migrants to be paroled into the U.S. without court dates." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Related StoriesView MoreBorder crossings off from last week's highs as U.S. pins hopes for order on mobile appLetters to the Editor -- Texas HB 5, border plans, Texas SB 8, women's rights, East Dallas Letters to the Editor -- H-1B visas, the Holocaust, Bryan Slaton, immigrants, gun safetyDallas woman accused of smuggling migrants pleads guilty to federal charge" | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Officials like Abbott warned that the dramatic shift in policy would lead to a surge of migrants flooding the border." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Texas has spent more than $4.5 billion on border security since 2021 and placed hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars toward the border wall, according to Abbott." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration's new measures took effect Friday as the nation's asylum policies transitioned away from Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that was used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Without the historic efforts Texas has deployed to respond to President Biden's derelictions of duty, the end of Title 42 expulsions would have been significantly worse." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In the federal government's absence, we, as Governors, must band together to combat President Biden's ongoing border crisis and ensure the safety and security that all Americans deserve, Abbott wrote to governors." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In the federal government's absence, we, as Governors, must band together to combat President Biden's ongoing border crisis and ensure the safety and security that all Americans deserve, Abbott wrote to governors." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In his letter, Abbott asked that other states help fund border security through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which lets states share resources with other states in response to a disaster or an emergency." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "In a two-page letter sent to governors across the country, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked his peers Tuesday to join his fight against President Joe Biden's new asylum measures by sending funding and all available law enforcement to the southern border." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "In a two-page letter sent to governors across the country, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked his peers Tuesday to join his fight against President Joe Biden's new asylum measures by sending funding and all available law enforcement to the southern border." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
55% : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday his plans to send 100 highway troopers, 200 law enforcement officers and 800 National Guard soldiers, plus boats and planes to the southern border in Texas.55% : Biden sent 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border.
52% : Texas governor asks other state leaders for law enforcement and financial support for southern border security costs.
49% : The U.S. announced new rules for anyone traveling through another country to qualify for asylum.
44% : While Title 42 prevented many from seeking asylum, it carried no legal consequences for repeated attempts to cross the border.
41% : Texas has spent more than $4.5 billion on border security since 2021 and placed hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars toward the border wall, according to Abbott.
40% : The Biden administration's new measures took effect Friday as the nation's asylum policies transitioned away from Title 42, a pandemic-era policy that was used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
39% : After Thursday, migrants face being barred from entering the U.S. for five years and possible criminal prosecution.
38% : The measure that aims to encourage legal pathways to asylum and cut out unscrupulous smugglers has been slammed with litigation from both sides of the aisle.
37% : Migrants who show up at the border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through will be denied asylum.
37% : The ACLU and its partners argue the U.S. legal code does not allow the administration to restrict access to asylum based on a migrant's manner of entry or whether they've applied for asylum elsewhere.
26% : In his letter, Abbott asked that other states help fund border security through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which lets states share resources with other states in response to a disaster or an emergency.
17% : In a two-page letter sent to governors across the country, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked his peers Tuesday to join his fight against President Joe Biden's new asylum measures by sending funding and all available law enforcement to the southern border.
*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.