This article analyses the immigration issue at the US and Mexico border from a leftist perspective. Before even reading the content of the article, you get a hint of the bias from the title. The emotion-driven statement of “Trump struggles to curb unauthorized immigration” that then leads into a furtive explanation of how making changes of this scale are not quick and easy.
Immigration in the United States has been a topic of debate within the government and this article uses biased rhetoric to describe the current state of it. The wordage of this article may be biased, but its delivery isn’t obvious. The diction is subtle in this way by not directly saying what the overall message implies.
For example, the first paragraph introduces the subject matter: increased levels of unauthorized immigration. However, it states that halfway through Trump’s first term he is “searching for quick-fix solutions” that he and his administration has previously “promised to solve.” This implies that the president is taking a long time to deliver a promise while also looking for an effortless, easy-out fix too.
Another emotionally driven rhetoric would include the author’s depiction of the signing of a discord. The White House revoked the nomination of Ronald Vitiello for a lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement position. However, the author wrote that the White House yanked the nomination from the “longtime federal immigration official.” The author then added that Trump’s actions were “emblematic of the failures of a president whose policies have exacerbated the migration surge” and that his methods are “largely ineffective in keeping out the asylum-seeking families.”
This article features biases remarks and emotionally driven phrases.
Nakamura, David, and Seung Min Kim. “As Trump Struggles to Curb Unauthorized Immigration, His Rhetoric Gets Tougher, but Quick Solutions Are Elusive.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 6 Apr. 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-trump-struggles-to-curb-unauthorized-immigration-his-rhetoric-gets-tougher-but-quick-solutions-are-elusive/2019/04/06/8780ac92-57b7-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.aeb6c36252c5.