Portland Press Herald Article RatingJustice Department warns it will sue Texas over state's new immigration law
Dec 29, 2023 View Original Article
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-22% Somewhat Liberal
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| "AdvertisementBoynton gave Texas a deadline of Wednesday to respond to the warning.Immigration policy has long been a flash point between Republicans and Democrats, and Congress has tried and failed for years to address the issue." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "On multiple days this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported more than 10,000 daily encounters with migrants who entered illegally." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "There were more than 2 million illegal crossings at the southwest border with Mexico in each of the past two fiscal years, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "President Biden has repeatedly refused to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do his job to secure the border, Abbott said in a statement earlier this month, vowing to take the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "CBP also has shut down a busy pedestrian crossing near San Diego and other border checkpoints, saying it needs its officers to help overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol agents.Republicans, and Abbott in particular, have faulted the Biden administration for the influx of migrants and say the new law is necessary to do what the federal government has not." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration a central focus of his administration and has vowed to do so again if reelected in 2024." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens to former President Donald Trump during a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in June 2021 in Pharr, Texas." | Positive | 46% Conservative |
| "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens to former President Donald Trump during a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in June 2021 in Pharr, Texas." | Positive | 46% Conservative |
| "On Wednesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lu00f3pez Obrador and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in the Mexican capital and agreed to form a working group to jointly confront the record numbers of undocumented immigrants arriving at the southern U.S. border." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Thursday's letter is the latest jab in a series of fights over immigration between Texas and the Biden administration." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Related Texas governor signs bill that lets police arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegallyIn the letter sent Thursday to Abbott, senior Justice Department official Brian Boynton said that if Texas implements the law when it is due to take effect in March, doing so would violate the Constitution." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last week signed into law S.B. 4, which authorizes local and state police to arrest undocumented immigrants and empowers state judges to order such people removed from the country." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "President Biden has repeatedly refused to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do his job to secure the border, Abbott said in a statement earlier this month, vowing to take the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "President Biden has repeatedly refused to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do his job to secure the border, Abbott said in a statement earlier this month, vowing to take the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Abbott said the statute will help stop the tidal wave of illegal entry into Texas, add additional funding to build more border wall and crack down on human smuggling." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "CBP also has shut down a busy pedestrian crossing near San Diego and other border checkpoints, saying it needs its officers to help overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol agents.Republicans, and Abbott in particular, have faulted the Biden administration for the influx of migrants and say the new law is necessary to do what the federal government has not." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "CBP also has shut down a busy pedestrian crossing near San Diego and other border checkpoints, saying it needs its officers to help overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol agents.Republicans, and Abbott in particular, have faulted the Biden administration for the influx of migrants and say the new law is necessary to do what the federal government has not." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Donald Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration a central focus of his administration and has vowed to do so again if reelected in 2024." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : "AdvertisementBoynton gave Texas a deadline of Wednesday to respond to the warning.Immigration policy has long been a flash point between Republicans and Democrats, and Congress has tried and failed for years to address the issue.44% : On multiple days this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported more than 10,000 daily encounters with migrants who entered illegally.
40% : There were more than 2 million illegal crossings at the southwest border with Mexico in each of the past two fiscal years, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
37% : "President Biden has repeatedly refused to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do his job to secure the border," Abbott said in a statement earlier this month, vowing to take the fight "all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary."
26% : CBP also has shut down a busy pedestrian crossing near San Diego and other border checkpoints, saying it needs its officers to help overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol agents.Republicans, and Abbott in particular, have faulted the Biden administration for the influx of migrants and say the new law is necessary to do what the federal government has not.
14% : Donald Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration a central focus of his administration and has vowed to do so again if reelected in 2024.
*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.