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'No place to hide': Trapped on the US-Mexico border, immigrants fear deportation

Dec 22, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -27% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-22% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "I want her here for when I graduate, get married, to be here for all the events of my life," the daughter said.
63% : Trump won 12 of the South Texas region's 14 counties, up from five in 2016.
53% : "I think that people who are US citizens, and I'm talking about, you know, most of our population, I think they believe that immigration laws should be enforced," said Toni Treviño, who leads the Republican Party in Starr County, along the border.
32% : "Before Trump got elected we always felt scared but knew we could do things to avoid being noticed," said Maria, who did not want her last name published for fear of drawing the authorities' attention.
31% : But her authorisation expires in two months, and she is not confident that Trump will keep the programme in place.
30% : Joaquín García, a director of community organising for the group, who was playing the officer, began by warning the audience that immigrants would need to be extra cautious come January 20th, when Trump returned to the White House.
28% : But she fears that when Trump returns to office, those protections may simply evaporate.
22% : Thousands of illegal immigrants living in a netherworld along the Texas border are braced for the likelihood of a long-promised crackdown once Donald Trump assumes officeFor the last quarter of a century, Maria's version of the American dream has been confined to a small corner of South Texas, tucked between the border with Mexico and a fortified Border Patrol checkpoint 120km north.

*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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