Portland Press Herald Article RatingOn the Rio Grande, 300 miles apart, Biden and Trump try to use immigration to election advantage
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "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." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "from left, Peter Flores, deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Jason Owens, chief of U.S. Border Patrol; and Gloria Chavez, sector chief for U.S. Border Patrol." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementGazing out over the river, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementTrump 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 | -12% Liberal |
| "Under Trump, too, new hardline policies were often held up in court." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "This is like a war, Trump said." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Crooked Joe has the blood of countless iocent victims, Trump said." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Trump also brought up the killing of a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia recently." | Negative | -58% 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 |
| "Here's what I would say to Mr. Trump, Biden said." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Here's what I would say to Mr. Trump, Biden said." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday in Eagle Pass, Texas." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday in Eagle Pass, Texas." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Walking with Biden are." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "I want the American people to know what we're trying to get done, Biden said." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "President Biden, second from right, looks over the southern border in Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday." | Negative | -6% 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 frontruer 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 frontruer to join him in supporting a congressional push for more funding and tighter restrictions." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementGazing out over the river, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "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 |
| "AdvertisementTrump 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 |
| "In Brownsville, where Biden spoke, a group of migrants crossed illegally overnight." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementSince Biden was last at the border a year ago, the debate over immigration in Washington has shifted further to the right, with Democrats increasingly eager to embrace conservative-backed border restrictions now that migrants are sleeping in police stations and airplane hangars in major U.S. cities." | Negative | -16% 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 |
| "The Biden administration's approach has been to pair crackdowns at the border with increasing legal pathways for migrants designed to steer people into arriving by plane with sponsors, not illegally on foot to the border." | 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 |
| "Despite Trump's claims, many studies have found immigrants are less drawn to violent crime than native-born citizens." | Negative | -22% 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's body had been pulled from the river after he drowned trying to cross." | Negative | -22% 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 |
| "Under Trump, too, new hardline policies were often held up in court." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementBiden went to the Rio Grande Valley city of Brownsville, which for nine years was the busiest corridor for illegal crossings." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President 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 | 4% Conservative |
| "On the banks of the same Rio Grande but 300 miles apart, President 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 | 4% Conservative |
| "House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declared the deal dead on arrival." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Among voters, worries about the nation's broken immigration system are rising on both sides of the political divide, which could be especially problematic for Biden." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Eric Gay/Associated PressTrump simply blamed Biden." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "This is like a war, Trump said." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Crooked Joe has the blood of countless iocent victims, Trump said." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Trump also brought up the killing of a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia recently." | Negative | -32% 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 |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : 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.53% : from left, Peter Flores, deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; Jason Owens, chief of U.S. Border Patrol; and Gloria Chavez, sector chief for U.S. Border Patrol.
46% : AdvertisementGazing out over the river, Trump raised his fist and waved and shouted to people on the Mexico side, who waved back.
44% : AdvertisementTrump 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.
32% : Under Trump, too, new hardline policies were often held up in court.
27% : "This is like a war," Trump said.
27% : "Crooked Joe has the blood of countless innocent victims," Trump said.
21% : "Trump also brought up the killing of a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia recently.
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.
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