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The Dangerous Myth of the Criminal Migrant

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Summary
Nutrition label

66% Informative

Vice President Harris conjured the southern border as an unruly and lawless place where “transnational criminal organizations” traffic in guns, drugs, and people.

Trump has built his political career on the threat of migrant criminals, using individual cases of harm to portray all migrants as potentially dangerous, and therefore deserving of removal from the country.

Clinton signed the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act into law, creating the “aggravated felony” category of offenses that carries severe consequences — including deportation — for noncitizens.

Both political parties in the US have been complicit in turning migrants into criminals.

Studies have long shown that there is no correlation between migrants and crime.

VR Score

67

Informative language

64

Neutral language

17

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

65

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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