Texas has arrested thousands on trespassing charges at the border. Illegal crossings are still high - Seymour Tribune

  • Bias Rating

    -54% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    88% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-23% Negative

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"When everything is finished and my case is guaranteed, I want to go to school because I started school and my dream is to be well educated, Abdoul said.___"
Positive
34% Conservative
"The trespassing arrests have been a cornerstone of Abbott's nearly $10 billion border mission known as Operation Lone Star that has tested the federal government's authority over immigration."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Last week, Abbott sent a flight of 120 migrants to Chicago in an escalation of his busing operation."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Abbott had predicted the trespassing arrests would produce swift results."
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-2% Liberal
"Abbott has also sent an estimated 80,000 migrants on buses to Democratic-led cities, strung up razor wire on the border and installed buoy barriers on the Rio Grande."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"We're doing what we can, but we're only slowing down that process, Spiller said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Since 2021, Texas authorities have arrested nearly 10,000 migrants on misdemeanor trespassing charges under what Abbott has called a arrest and jail operation: Border landowners enter agreements with the state authorizing trespassing arrests, clearing the way for law enforcement to apprehend migrants who enter the U.S. through those properties."
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-14% Liberal
"Those charged, Spiller said, are presumably assimilating into the U.S. population."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"State Rep. David Spiller, who authored the new arrest law Abbott signed this month, said he believes border crossings would be much higher without the trespassing prosecutions."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"State Rep. David Spiller, who authored the new arrest law Abbott signed this month, said he believes border crossings would be much higher without the trespassing prosecutions."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Abbott suggested this month Texas may soon phase out the trespassing arrests as it moves forward with illegal entry charges that can be enforced most anywhere in the state, including hundreds of miles from the border."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Civil rights organizations have already sued to stop the new law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, calling it an unconstitutional overreach that encroaches on the U.S. government's immigration authority."
Negative
-38% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "When everything is finished and my case is guaranteed, I want to go to school because I started school and my dream is to be well educated," Abdoul said.___

*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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