The Economist Article Rating

How far will Donald Trump go to get rid of illegal immigrants?

Jan 09, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    46% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -17% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-13% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : That is almost three times the combined budgets of and Customs and Border Protection in 2024.
55% : "Mr Miller's comrade-in-arms will be Tom Homan, who led Immigration and Customs Enforcement (), the agency that carries out deportations, during Mr Trump's first term and is set to become "border tsar" in his second.
54% : "The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the Insurrection Act," says Joseph Nunn of the Brennan Centre for Justice, a think-tank.
52% : Although some migrants use forged documents to obtain work, government schemes that allow employers to check workers' immigration status have curbed this practice.
46% : Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff, is an America First, anti-immigration hawk who has been fighting against bipartisan immigration reform in Congress since 2013.
29% : "W National Guard, and we'll go as far as I'm allowed to go, according to the laws of our country," said Donald Trump in November, explaining his plan to rid America of illegal immigrants to Time magazine.

*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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