The Tribune Article RatingJudge blocks Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants who illegally enter US - Seymour Tribune
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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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| "FILE - Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Other Republican governors have expressed support for Abbott, who has said the federal government is not doing enough to enforce immigration laws." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Allowing Texas to permanently supersede federal directives due to a so-called 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, the judge wrote." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "U.S. District Judge David Ezra's preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas' southern border to discuss immigration." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Other Republican governors have expressed support for Abbott, who has said the federal government is not doing enough to enforce immigration laws." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Texas has the right to defend itself because of President Biden's ongoing failure to fulfill his duty to protect our state from the invasion at our southern border, he wrote, noting that he believes the case will ultimately end up before the Supreme Court." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Ezra, who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, said he feared the U.S. could become a confederation of states enforcing their own immigration laws." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "It is the second time in six months that Ezra has stopped one of Abbott's border escalations, having also ruled against a floating barrier Texas erected in the Rio Grande." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration's lawsuit over the law is one several legal battles between it and Texas over how far the state can go to try to prevent migrants from crossing the border." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's immigration enforcement effort." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's immigration enforcement effort." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "U.S. District Judge David Ezra's preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas' southern border to discuss immigration." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "U.S. District Judge David Ezra's preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas' southern border to discuss immigration." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In a statement, Abbott blamed the influx of migrants on Biden and said we will not back down in our fight to protect our state -- and our nation." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "In a statement, Abbott blamed the influx of migrants on Biden and said we will not back down in our fight to protect our state -- and our nation." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
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54% : FILE - Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.52% : Other Republican governors have expressed support for Abbott, who has said the federal government is not doing enough to enforce immigration laws.
44% : Allowing Texas to "permanently supersede federal directives" due to a so-called 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," the judge wrote.
31% : U.S. District Judge David Ezra's preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas' southern border to discuss immigration.
*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.