The inhumane futility of border policing

Oct 19, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% 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

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"It means supporting them materially and symbolically, through healthcare, education and public assistance, as they pursue them."
Positive
28% Conservative
"Racial profiling at the southern border of the European Union was clearly rife."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Under this provision, at least one million people have been denied their right, per international law, to apply for asylum."
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-6% Liberal
"Recently, footage of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Haitians drew swift and fitting rebuke."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"I spoke with people there who were stuck for over two years as their applications for asylum were adjudicated."
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-8% Liberal
"Following the lead of his predecessor, President Joe Biden has continued to use Title 42 of the 1944 Public Health Services Law, which allows the government to deny entry to foreigners who may have communicable diseases."
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4% Conservative
"What is more, even when asylum seekers do enter, they face the prospect of indefinite detention in the largest immigrant detention system in the world, and possibly even family separation, which was widely practised under the Trump administration."
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-16% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : It means supporting them materially and symbolically, through healthcare, education and public assistance, as they pursue them.
51% : Racial profiling at the southern border of the European Union was clearly rife.
47% : Under this provision, at least one million people have been denied their right, per international law, to apply for asylum.
46% : Recently, footage of Border Patrol officers on horseback whipping Haitians drew swift and fitting rebuke.
46% : I spoke with people there who were stuck for over two years as their applications for asylum were adjudicated.

*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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