L.A. mayor slams Abbott for 'despicable stunt' after Texas sends more migrants to California

Jun 15, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    76% 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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"Earlier this year, the Republican-led Texas Legislature appropriated more than $5 billion for border security."
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4% Conservative
"The policy allowed federal agents to immediately expel migrants back to Mexico before applying for asylum."
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0% Conservative
"Abbott's latest move also comes as the number of encounters between U.S. Border Patrol and undocumented immigrants has plummeted since the middle of May, when the pandemic-era health policy known as Title 42 ended."
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-8% Liberal
"The migrant transport is part of Abbott's multi-tiered effort on immigration enforcement as he and his GOP allies decry what they call President Biden's open-border policies."
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-34% Liberal
"Our emergency management, police, fire and other departments were able to find out about the incoming arrival while the bus was on its way and were already mobilized along with nonprofit partners before the bus arrived, Bass added."
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16% Conservative
"Gov. Greg Abbott continued to antagonize Democrats this week when he bused dozens of migrants from Texas to Los Angeles, the latest in a series of trips that has taken thousands of migrants from Texas to Democratic-led cities."
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10% Conservative
"Abbott also launched Operation Lone Star in 2021."
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8% Conservative
"Abbott began the policy last year and so far migrants arriving in Texas have been sent to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Washington, D.C."
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4% Conservative
"At least two buses have delivered migrants to the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris."
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0% Conservative
"Shortly after I took office, I directed City Departments to begin plaing in the event Los Angeles was on the receiving end of a despicable stunt that Republican Governors have grown so fond of, said Bass, a former Democratic member of the U.S. Congress, in a statement."
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-6% Liberal
"Our border communities are on the frontlines of President Biden's border crisis, and Texas will continue providing this much-needed relief until he steps up to do his job and secure the border."
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-8% Liberal
"Abbott said that as of this week, more than 21,000 migrants have been bused from Texas to so-called sanctuary cities -- a general term for jurisdictions whose local police don't enforce federal immigration laws."
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-8% Liberal
"Abbott's latest move also comes as the number of encounters between U.S. Border Patrol and undocumented immigrants has plummeted since the middle of May, when the pandemic-era health policy known as Title 42 ended."
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-14% Liberal
"In a statement Wednesday Abbott said the migrants were dropped off at Los Angeles' Union Station as part of his effort to ease the burden on Texas border towns he says are overwhelmed and overrun.Los Angeles is a major city that migrants seek to go to, particularly now that its city leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary city status, Abbott said in a statement."
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-12% Liberal
"In a statement Wednesday Abbott said the migrants were dropped off at Los Angeles' Union Station as part of his effort to ease the burden on Texas border towns he says are overwhelmed and overrun.Los Angeles is a major city that migrants seek to go to, particularly now that its city leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary city status, Abbott said in a statement."
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-12% Liberal
"Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ran full-page advertisements in three of Texas' daily newspapers slamming Abbott and the Texas Legislature for passing an extreme anti-abortion bill that went into effect in 2021."
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18% Conservative
"Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ran full-page advertisements in three of Texas' daily newspapers slamming Abbott and the Texas Legislature for passing an extreme anti-abortion bill that went into effect in 2021."
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18% Conservative
"The migrant transport is part of Abbott's multi-tiered effort on immigration enforcement as he and his GOP allies decry what they call President Biden's open-border policies."
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4% Conservative
"The migrant transport is part of Abbott's multi-tiered effort on immigration enforcement as he and his GOP allies decry what they call President Biden's open-border policies."
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4% Conservative
"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass immediately called out Abbott for his abhorrent tactics."
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4% Conservative
"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass immediately called out Abbott for his abhorrent tactics."
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4% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Earlier this year, the Republican-led Texas Legislature appropriated more than $5 billion for border security.
50% : The policy allowed federal agents to immediately expel migrants back to Mexico before applying for asylum.
46% : Abbott's latest move also comes as the number of encounters between U.S. Border Patrol and undocumented immigrants has plummeted since the middle of May, when the pandemic-era health policy known as Title 42 ended.
33% : The migrant transport is part of Abbott's multi-tiered effort on immigration enforcement as he and his GOP allies decry what they call President Biden's "open-border" policies.

*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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