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Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement

  • Bias Rating

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

    -49% 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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-11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Furthermore, they argue the states cannot be coerced into enforcing federal immigration laws.
52% : The U.S. Department of Justice also sued Illinois in February over the TRUST Act.
48% : The attorneys general say the goal of the policies is to illegally force states to carry out federal immigration responsibilities.
39% : According to the lawsuits, recently enacted policies at the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Transportation illegally tie grant funding for items such as natural disaster recovery and road construction to whether the state participates in federal immigration enforcement.

*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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