Gov. Abbott to sign bills allocating $1.5B for border security, criminalizing illegal crossings

Dec 18, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    48% 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

8% Positive

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"SB3 sets aside $1,540,000,000 for border security measures, including for constructing new border barriers - and to help pay for Texas cities to enforce the other new border law, SB4."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Immigration advocates are against SB4, which will allow Texas peace officers to arrest people they suspect of crossing into the US illegallyTexas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign two new immigration bills into law on Monday."
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-2% Liberal
"SB3 will allocate more than $1.5 billion for border security measures, while SB4 makes it a state crime to cross into Texas from Mexico illegally."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The governor's office notified that Abbott will head to Brownsville on Dec. 18 to hold a bill signing for key border security legislation passed during Special Session."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Immigration advocates are against SB4, which will allow Texas peace officers to arrest people they suspect of crossing into the US illegallyTexas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign two new immigration bills into law on Monday."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Altogether under Joe Biden, there have been more than 8 million people come across the border illegally, Abbott said during an event on November 19."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Altogether under Joe Biden, there have been more than 8 million people come across the border illegally, Abbott said during an event on November 19."
Negative
-2% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "SB3 sets aside $1,540,000,000 for border security measures, including for constructing new border barriers - and to help pay for Texas cities to enforce the other new border law, SB4.
49% : Immigration advocates are against SB4, which will allow Texas peace officers to arrest people they suspect of crossing into the US illegallyTexas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign two new immigration bills into law on Monday.
39% : SB3 will allocate more than $1.5 billion for border security measures, while SB4 makes it a state crime to cross into Texas from Mexico 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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