Supreme Court justices seem conflicted in immigration enforcement case

  • Bias Rating

    -26% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    N/A

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

N/A

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"Prelogar and several liberal justices noted Tuesday that the guidelines were just that, giving the nation's 6,000 ICE agents discretion to decide which unlawful immigrants posed the most pressing threats."
Positive
26% Conservative
"In September 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to prioritize the detention of recent border crossers and immigrants who pose a threat to national security, through terrorism or espionage, or who were designated as egregious threats to public safety."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"When Stone said his interpretation of the law would require between 60,000 and 80,000 more arrests, Roberts asked: Are there 60,000 to 80,000 empty beds?ICE has 34,000 detention beds and, as of June, more than 4 million undocumented immigrants in its caseload, including 327,000 people with criminal histories."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Justice Samuel Alito said Texas was contending it will lose money for law enforcement and education if the guidelines result in more unlawful immigrants staying in the country, and showing such damages would allow individuals to sue."
Negative
-64% Liberal
"The policy was a departure from the Trump administration, which encouraged arrests of all undocumented immigrants, at a time when border apprehensions are at a record high and Congress has not designated the resources to arrest all of the estimated 11 million immigrants deemed removable."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The Trump administration had a far broader policy that allowed removal of those in the country illegally regardless of criminal history or how long they had lived in the community."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The Biden administration guidelines were challenged by a number of Republican-led states - Texas and Louisiana brought the case at the Supreme Court - and halted nationwide by a district judge in Texas, who said they violated federal law."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In September 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to prioritize the detention of recent border crossers and immigrants who pose a threat to national security, through terrorism or espionage, or who were designated as egregious threats to public safety."
Negative
-18% Liberal

Bias Meter

Extremely
Liberal

Very
Liberal

Moderately
Liberal

Somewhat Liberal

Center

Somewhat Conservative

Moderately
Conservative

Very
Conservative

Extremely
Conservative

-100%
Liberal

100%
Conservative

Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Prelogar and several liberal justices noted Tuesday that the guidelines were just that, giving the nation's 6,000 ICE agents discretion to decide which unlawful immigrants posed the most pressing threats.
36% : In September 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to prioritize the detention of recent border crossers and immigrants who pose a threat to national security, through terrorism or espionage, or who were designated as egregious threats to public safety.
33% : When Stone said his interpretation of the law would require between 60,000 and 80,000 more arrests, Roberts asked: "Are there 60,000 to 80,000 empty beds?"ICE has 34,000 detention beds and, as of June, more than 4 million undocumented immigrants in its caseload, including 327,000 people with criminal histories.
18% : Justice Samuel Alito said Texas was contending it will lose money for law enforcement and education if the guidelines result in more unlawful immigrants staying in the country, and showing such damages would allow individuals to sue.

*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.

Copy link