On the Rio Grande, 300 Miles Apart, Biden and Trump Try to Use Immigration to Election Advantage - GV Wire - Explore. Explain. Expose

  • Bias Rating

    82% Extremely Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    94% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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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

Overall Sentiment

21% Positive

  •   Conservative
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"Gazing out over the river through the razor wire, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Across the border from Brownsville, in Matamoros, makeshift shelters dotted the ground for migrants who hope to come to the U.S.I come completely alone on this journey, I have been on this journey for about six months and the only important thing I have in my life are my mom, my little sister and nobody else, Joseph Elián Gutierrez Castillo, a Nicaraguan migrant, said in Spanish."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Trump has laid out updated immigration proposals that would mark a dramatic escalation of the approach he used in office and that drew alarms from civil rights activists and numerous court challenges."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Under Trump, too, new hardline policies were often held up or stopped by the courts."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"This is like a war, Trump said."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"They're being let into our country and it's horrible, Trump said."
Negative
-64% Liberal
"But Trump, who didn't want to give Biden a political win on one of his signature campaign issues, convinced Republicans to kill the deal."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"Trump simply blamed Biden."
Negative
-90% Liberal
"Related Story: Few Would Be Satisfied With a Possible Biden-Trump Rematch in 2024, Poll ShowsHere's what I would say to Mr. Trump, Biden said."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Related Story: Few Would Be Satisfied With a Possible Biden-Trump Rematch in 2024, Poll ShowsHere's what I would say to Mr. Trump, Biden said."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Gazing out over the river through the razor wire, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Biden sought to spotlight the necessity of a bipartisan border security bill that was tanked by Republicans on Trump's orders, and flat-out asked the Republican front-ruer to join him in supporting a congressional push for more funding and tighter restrictions."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Biden sought to spotlight the necessity of a bipartisan border security bill that was tanked by Republicans on Trump's orders, and flat-out asked the Republican front-ruer to join him in supporting a congressional push for more funding and tighter restrictions."
Positive
2% Conservative
"During bipartisan talks on the deal that would have toughened access for migrants and funded enforcement and immigration court, Biden himself said he'd be willing to shut down the border right now, should the deal pass."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"The visit was a nod to how the Biden administration views migration: as a regional and global issue, not just a U.S. problem."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"In Brownsville where Biden spoke, a group of migrants had crossed illegally overnight."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"He met with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas National Guard soldiers who have commandeered a local park and put up razor wire fencing at the river's edge to keep migrants from crossing illegally."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Immigration has emerged as a central issue in the 2024 presidential campaign, which is widely expected to be a Biden-Trump rematch, and each man is seeking to use the border problems to his own political advantage."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"As the politicians traded barbs over who was to blame, migrants were still making the dangerous journey into the U.S. Trump stood on a concrete boat launch where a day earlier, a man had been pulled from the river, drowned, trying to cross."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Trump has laid out updated immigration proposals that would mark a dramatic escalation of the approach he used in office and that drew alarms from civil rights activists and numerous court challenges."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Despite Trump's claims, many studies have found immigrants are less drawn to violent crime than native-born citizens."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Biden went to the Rio Grande Valley city of Brownsville, which for nine years was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Republicans claim Biden has the power he needs to fix the issue, but absent legislative action, any major policy changes are likely to be challenged or held up in court."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Among voters, worries about immigration are rising on both sides of the political divide, which could be especially problematic for Biden."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border and tussled from a distance over who is to blame for the nation's broken immigration system and how to fix it."
Positive
6% Conservative
"BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.-Mexico border and tussled from a distance over who is to blame for the nation's broken immigration system and how to fix it."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Under Trump, too, new hardline policies were often held up or stopped by the courts."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declared the deal dead on arrival."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"This is like a war, Trump said."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"They're being let into our country and it's horrible, Trump said."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"But Trump, who didn't want to give Biden a political win on one of his signature campaign issues, convinced Republicans to kill the deal."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"But Trump, who didn't want to give Biden a political win on one of his signature campaign issues, convinced Republicans to kill the deal."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Trump simply blamed Biden."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Trump simply blamed Biden."
Positive
6% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Gazing out over the river through the razor wire, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back.
49% : Across the border from Brownsville, in Matamoros, makeshift shelters dotted the ground for migrants who hope to come to the U.S."I come completely alone on this journey, I have been on this journey for about six months and the only important thing I have in my life are my mom, my little sister and nobody else," Joseph Elián Gutierrez Castillo, a Nicaraguan migrant, said in Spanish.
40% : Trump has laid out updated immigration proposals that would mark a dramatic escalation of the approach he used in office and that drew alarms from civil rights activists and numerous court challenges.
31% : Under Trump, too, new hardline policies were often held up or stopped by the courts.
27% : "This is like a war," Trump said.
18% : "They're being let into our country and it's horrible," Trump said.
14% : But Trump, who didn't want to give Biden a political win on one of his signature campaign issues, convinced Republicans to kill the deal.
5% : Trump simply blamed Biden.

*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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