Immigrant 'Dreamers' await outcome of U.S. court challenge to DACA

Jul 07, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    94% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    46% 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.

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"DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas agreed, but said the administration is doing all it can to bolster DACA through new regulation while it presses Congress to enact a long-term solution."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Biden administration lawyers stressed in court papers that Dreamers' ability to lawfully work, access employer health care, buy homes and pay property taxes reduces the financial burden on states to provide education and health services to undocumented immigrants."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Those currently enrolled in DACA can get work permits renewed, but no new applications will be accepted until the legal quagmire around the program is sorted out."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Federal lawyers argued DACA complies with existing immigration law because agents retain discretion to reject specific applicants on a case-by-case basis, while focusing limited resources on expelling higher-priority offenders."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"A U.S. judge in Texas agreed and declared DACA unconstitutional in July 2021."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"They also complain DACA grants federal benefits -- which the states must pay for -- to whole classes of people in the country illegally in violation of immigration law."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The coalition of Republican-led states trying to stop DACA claims a president can't legally usurp congressional authority to set immigration policy or alter federal programs without following all required rule making steps."
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-26% Liberal
"But if states including Texas and Missouri succeed in their claim that DACA was created illegally, the immigrants could be kicked out of the U.S. -- where many have built lives and started families."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"While the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 ruled that then-president Donald Trump had no right to abruptly end DACA, the legal fight has shifted to whether Obama had authority to start DACA in the first place."
Negative
-74% Liberal
"The DACA program has changed people's lives for the better and it has enriched our country, Mayorkas said in an emailed statement."
Positive
14% Conservative
"DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas agreed, but said the administration is doing all it can to bolster DACA through new regulation while it presses Congress to enact a long-term solution."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Biden administration lawyers stressed in court papers that Dreamers' ability to lawfully work, access employer health care, buy homes and pay property taxes reduces the financial burden on states to provide education and health services to undocumented immigrants."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"The so-called Dreamers are part of a 2012 program under former President Barack Obama called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which offers protection from deportation and provides work permits."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"While the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 ruled that then-president Donald Trump had no right to abruptly end DACA, the legal fight has shifted to whether Obama had authority to start DACA in the first place."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"While the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 ruled that then-president Donald Trump had no right to abruptly end DACA, the legal fight has shifted to whether Obama had authority to start DACA in the first place."
Negative
-2% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas agreed, but said the administration is doing all it can to bolster DACA through new regulation while it presses Congress to enact a long-term solution.
53% : Biden administration lawyers stressed in court papers that Dreamers' ability to lawfully work, access employer health care, buy homes and pay property taxes reduces the financial burden on states to provide education and health services to undocumented immigrants.
46% : Those currently enrolled in DACA can get work permits renewed, but no new applications will be accepted until the legal quagmire around the program is sorted out.
42% : Federal lawyers argued DACA complies with existing immigration law because agents retain discretion to reject specific applicants on a case-by-case basis, while focusing limited resources on expelling higher-priority offenders.
40% : A U.S. judge in Texas agreed and declared DACA unconstitutional in July 2021.
39% : They also complain DACA grants federal benefits -- which the states must pay for -- to whole classes of people in the country illegally in violation of immigration law.
37% : The coalition of Republican-led states trying to stop DACA claims a president can't legally usurp congressional authority to set immigration policy or alter federal programs without following all required rule making steps.
34% : But if states including Texas and Missouri succeed in their claim that DACA was created illegally, the immigrants could be kicked out of the U.S. -- where many have built lives and started families.
13% : While the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 ruled that then-president Donald Trump had no right to abruptly end DACA, the legal fight has shifted to whether Obama had authority to start DACA in the first place.

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