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"Absolutely Insane": Pentagon Officials on Trump's Military Deportation Plan

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -52% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "On Day one I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out," Trump said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in the final days of the presidential campaign.
41% : "In a prior campaign speech, Trump said his administration would follow "the Eisenhower model," referencing a 1954 campaign, whose name was also an ethnic slur, to round up and expel Mexican immigrants: "Operation Wetback."
33% : Trump has also previously suggested he would rely on wartime powers to carry out his plan.
26% : Throughout the presidential race, Trump also vowed to mobilize the National Guard to assist with his planned expulsions.
23% : Trump has also said he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to expel suspected members of drug cartels without due process.
22% : "During his first term, Trump deported about 1.5 million immigrants, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute.
15% : But when Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, posted on social media that the next administration "will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program," Trump responded: "TRUE!!!

*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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