ICE detainees living in cells with non-functioning toilets, sinks: Report

Mar 19, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -50% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -66% Very Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    18% 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

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"In its response sent to the Inspector General earlier this month, ICE claimed that staffing has increased at the facility and is at over 80 percent of the recommended staff."
Positive
14% Conservative
"In December 2020, ICE issued a contract discrepancy report that specified shortages of medical employees with issues elsewhere in the facility."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"ICE also claimed in its response that the inspector allegedly staged at least one of the photos in the report, which showed detainees retrieve drinking water from a faucet that is used to fill mop buckets in a common area."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Earlier this week, Newsweek reported that ICE is detaining an unknown number of Ukrainian refugees under a policy of detaining asylum-seekers that was introduced as a pandemic safety measure."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"ICE issued several disagreements with aspects of the inspection and subsequent report and said the Office of the Inspector General ignored facts presented to it in order to achieve preconceived conclusions."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Most, if not all of the plumbing and hygiene issues have been fixed or will be in the process of being fixed by the end of March, ICE said."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The report came a week after more than 100 House Democrats sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on ICE to suspend detention expansion, phase out private for-profit facilities and conduct a review of all ICE detention facilities."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"ICE alleged that video surveillance showed after the picture was taken, one of the detainees poured out the water and did not drink it."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Near the end of last year, Newsweek reported that the number of migrants in detention centers had increased more than 55 percent since President Joe Biden took office."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The report came a week after more than 100 House Democrats sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on ICE to suspend detention expansion, phase out private for-profit facilities and conduct a review of all ICE detention facilities."
Negative
-12% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "In its response sent to the Inspector General earlier this month, ICE claimed that staffing has increased at the facility and is at over 80 percent of the recommended staff.
45% : In December 2020, ICE issued a "contract discrepancy report" that specified shortages of medical employees with issues elsewhere in the facility.
45% :ICE also claimed in its response that the inspector allegedly staged at least one of the photos in the report, which showed detainees retrieve drinking water from a faucet that is used to fill mop buckets in a common area.
44% : Earlier this week, Newsweek reported that ICE is detaining an unknown number of Ukrainian refugees under a policy of detaining asylum-seekers that was introduced as a pandemic safety measure.
44% :ICE issued several disagreements with aspects of the inspection and subsequent report and said the Office of the Inspector General "ignored facts presented to it in order to achieve preconceived conclusions.
44% : Most, if not all of the plumbing and hygiene issues have been fixed or will be in the process of being fixed by the end of March, ICE said.
39% : The report came a week after more than 100 House Democrats sent a letter to the Biden administration calling on ICE to suspend detention expansion, phase out private for-profit facilities and conduct a review of all ICE detention facilities.
37% : ICE alleged that video surveillance showed after the picture was taken, one of the detainees poured out the water and did not drink it.

*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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