The article “Trump heads to US-Mexico border after a week of confusing threats” is about how President Trump went to the US-Mexico boarder following a week of confusing comments over whether he’s would shut it down. The author of the article is Maegan Vazquez a CNN White House reporter. CNN is known to have a bias toward the left and being critical towards the right.
In the article is states Trump said “the immigration system is full, regardless of whether the individuals seeking to come into the US are seeking asylum or not.” The article shows how President Trump is standing firm on his decision to not allow anyone else in regardless of the reason why. He also repeated his claim asylum seekers were perpetrating a hoax on the US. Throughout the article there are key words that pop out to make the reader angry it seems. The word “threat” comes up consistently. The article seems to written for people who are against Trump. The article does not mentions any statistics about how many immigrants are currently trying to cross the boarder. The phrase “fake news” was mention in the article. This term has been mentioned in the news a lot lately and seems to trigger people. The fact that the article mentioned President Trump saying “fake news” makes me think the author wants people feeling a certain way.
The other article “Trump declares ‘country is full’ in Fox News interview, says US can no longer accept illegal immigrants” is about the same topic but from the Fox News stand point. Fox News has an overall strong right bias. The author of the articles is Lukas Mikelionis a reporter for Fox News. This article only mentions the word threat once and does not have the term “fake news” in it. The quotes in this article are also much softer on President Trump “the U.S. immigration system can no longer absorb a mass influx of illegal immigrants, but praised Mexico for stopping border crossings after his threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border.” This articles potential manipulation presents is evident with the word choice and quotes the author decided to use. “There’s never been so many people coming up and that’s because they’re gaming the system and the system is changed for the worse because of what happened with Democrats and what they’ve done in terms of Congress,” Trump said. These two articles are on the same topic but have a very different outlook.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-the-country-full-in-fox-news-interview-says-american-can-no-longer-accept-illegal-immigrants
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/05/politics/donald-trump-border-visit-calexico/index.html