Migrants race to US border as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire, straining US immigration system

  • Bias Rating

    Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    94% 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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"If it works, it could fundamentally alter how migrants come to the southern border."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The Border Patrol stopped some 10,000 migrants on Tuesday -- nearly twice the average daily level from March and only slightly below the 11,000 figure that authorities have said is the upper limit of what they expect after Title 42 ends, one U.S. official said."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"While Title 42 prevented many from seeking asylum, it carried no legal consequences, encouraging repeat attempts."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Migrants are now essentially barred from seeking asylum in the U.S. if they first didn't seek protection in the countries they traveled through or applied on line."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"After Thursday, migrants face being barred from entering the U.S. for five years and possible criminal prosecution."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The Biden administration argues its rule is different because it's not an outright ban but a higher burden of proof to get asylum and it pairs restrictions with other newly opened legal pathways."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"But President Joe Biden, who is ruing for reelection, is facing withering criticism from migrant advocates who say he's abandoning more humanitarian methods and Republicans who claim he's soft on border security."
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-54% Liberal
"We're seeing precisely the challenge we expected, Mayorkas said Friday on ABC's Good Morning America."
Positive
14% Conservative
"The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"The Biden administration has said the new policies are meant both to crack down on illegal crossings and to offer a new legal pathway for migrants who spend thousands on smuggling operations to get them to the U.S.-Mexico border."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"But late Thursday, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell, an appointee of President Donald Trump, temporarily halted the administration's plans to release people into the U.S., and set a court date a week from Friday on whether to extend it more."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The Biden administration argues its rule is different because it's not an outright ban but a higher burden of proof to get asylum and it pairs restrictions with other newly opened legal pathways."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned of overcrowding."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"But President Joe Biden, who is ruing for reelection, is facing withering criticism from migrant advocates who say he's abandoning more humanitarian methods and Republicans who claim he's soft on border security."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and other groups, alleges the Biden administration doubled down on a policy proposed by Trump that the same court rejected."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and other groups, alleges the Biden administration doubled down on a policy proposed by Trump that the same court rejected."
Positive
2% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : If it works, it could fundamentally alter how migrants come to the southern border.
47% : The Border Patrol stopped some 10,000 migrants on Tuesday -- nearly twice the average daily level from March and only slightly below the 11,000 figure that authorities have said is the upper limit of what they expect after Title 42 ends, one U.S. official said.
44% : While Title 42 prevented many from seeking asylum, it carried no legal consequences, encouraging repeat attempts.
43% : Migrants are now essentially barred from seeking asylum in the U.S. if they first didn't seek protection in the countries they traveled through or applied on line.
39% : After Thursday, migrants face being barred from entering the U.S. for five years and possible criminal prosecution.
39% : The Biden administration argues its rule is different because it's not an outright ban but a higher burden of proof to get asylum and it pairs restrictions with other newly opened legal pathways.
23% : But President Joe Biden, who is running for reelection, is facing withering criticism from migrant advocates who say he's abandoning more humanitarian methods and Republicans who claim he's soft on border security.

*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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