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NBC Chicago Article Rating

Secret Service agents responded to Chicago school, not ICE, agency says

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : We will not open our doors for ICE, and we are here to protect our children and make sure they have access to an excellent education.
58% : In an interview with MSNBC shortly after the encounter, CPS CEO Pedro Martinez said the agents "presented credentials and shared that they were from ICE.
54% : "Earlier today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School," Chief Education Officer Bogdana Chkoumbova said during a press conference at the school.
48% : Schools across the Chicago area have released guidance about potential situations after the Trump Administration revoked previous guidance prohibiting immigration arrests at schools, churches and hospitals.
45% : A spokesperson for ICE later said "this was not an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounter.
44% : According to this official, ICE made 538 arrests -- 373 criminal arrests and 165 non-criminal arrests -- throughout the U.S. on Thursday.
40% : " The school's principal said the school would not open its doors for ICE unnecessarily.
21% : Trump came into office promising to undertake deportation operations and other crackdowns on 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.

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