Border Duel: Biden, Trump Show Up at Southern Border as Illegal Entries Shatter Records Again

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "The operation that they showed me is nothing less than incredible," said Trump during a speech in Eagle Pass, Texas.
54% : In a new NBC poll, 57% of registered voters say Trump would do a better job of securing the border, compared to 22% for Biden.
39% : President Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol in Brownsville while Donald Trump greets members of Texas Department of Public Safety in Eagle Pass (AP Photos/Evan Vucci/Eric Gay)
33% : ***Three hundred miles away, in Brownsville, TX, President Biden called on Trump to rally Republicans on Capitol Hill to help pass a bipartisan bill worth more than $20 billion, to finally crack down on border crossings and fund needed resources.
30% : And the parents are devastated," said Trump.
26% : "But this is a Joe Biden invasion," Trump said.
18% : During his visit to Eagle Pass, sometimes called "illegal Pass", Trump placed the blame for the crisis squarely on the current president.
18% : And Thursday, Trump talked about how Georgia student Laken Riley appears to have been killed by an illegal immigrant - and other criminal actions by migrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
12% : Meanwhile, as Trump and Biden talked about the border crisis, a federal judge blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S.

*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.