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Fox News published an article which stated that President Trump threatened to close the Southern border if Mexico did not immediately stop the surge of illegal immigrants coming into the United States. Numbers are included in the article which explains that more than 76,000 immigrants were detained, and 136,000 migrants with their children crossed illegally within the first four months of the year. The president issued his first veto on a Democrat-backed measure to cancel his national emergency, but House Democrats failed to override the veto. The article concludes with Trump’s plans to shift $3.6 billion from military construction projects to work on border barriers.

Fox News is well known to shift in favor of the far right to create a political bias. This article solely focuses on Trump and his thoughts about the Southern Border. It does not describe how Democrat’s feel about immigration or how they would like to deal with migrants attempting to come into the country. It just only briefly mentions that Democrats attempted to override the President’s veto. Fox News is attempting to manipulate the text in favor of President Trump by not addressing all the sides involved in the issue. Readers are only aware of how Trump feels about the Southern Border and the numbers of people who are apprehended at the border. It does not explain why these people are trying to come into the country but paints them as bad guys attempting to break the law by entering illegally.

Singman, Brooke. “Trump Threatens to Close Border ‘next Week’ If Mexico Doesn’t ‘Immediately Stop’ Flood of Illegal Immigrants.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 29 Mar. 2019, www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-to-close-southern-border-next-week-if-mexico-doesnt-immediately-stop-illegal-immigrants-from-trying-to-cross-into-us.

Fox News published an article on April 4, 2019, Thursday. This article was titled “Trump gives Mexico a ‘one-year warning’ to stop drugs, migrants, or he will tax cars and close border.”

Within the title, we can see the problem Fox is addressing, which is Trump threatening Mexico to tax their cars and close their border. The author is a reporter from Fox named Adam Shaw.

According to Fact Check/Media Bias, Fox News is “Right Biased,” where writers for right bias will usually uses loaded language, especially to protect conservative views, which is similar to Daily Kos, where they use loaded language to support left bias (Fact Check/Media Bias). If any news or reports contradict or could potentially harm conservative views, right bias sites will omit information to support their views.

In this article, I found it to be very focused on what Trump “said.” However, when and where he “said” these things is not cited or referenced. It just put quotations around what Trump said. This pushes the reader to do more research to fact check him.

Also, how much information is Fox News hiding or not sharing in this article? There really isn’t much links or sources to dig deeper going from this article itself, which doesn’t make it really reliable or dependable if you want the facts. Throughout the article, there are links to other Fox News articles, which would further support their views.

Trump has demonstrated to not really be well established, whether he is conservative or liberal. With Fox News though, I am skeptical if they kept information to support conservative views.

“Fox News.” Media Bias/Fact Check, mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news/.

Shaw, Adam. “Trump Gives Mexico a ‘One-Year Warning’ to Stop Drugs, Migrants or He Will Tax Cars and Close Border.” Fox News, FOX News Network, www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-gives-mexico-a-one-year-warning-to-stop-drugs-migrants-or-he-will-tax-cars-and-close-border.