BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Emotion, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 93.6% saturation with 189 hits. Analysis detected 822 faulty-reasoning hits from 202 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.8% and a BS Rank of 95% (836 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.00% of the article peer group.
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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement recently purchased a warehouse on Salt Lake City’s west side, but the agency doesn’t intend to use the site for goods or merchandise: It will be a detention facility, part of the agency’s efforts to round up and deport a million people every year.
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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement recently purchased a warehouse on Salt Lake City’s west side, but the agency doesn’t intend to use the site for goods or merchandise: It will be a detention facility, part of the agency’s efforts to round up and deport a million people every year.ICE failed to inform any local lawmakers prior to buying the warehouse.
They didn’t even notify the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation of their plans.
Agency leadership has since told Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall that the warehouse will serve to jail between 7,500 and 10,000 people, and the mayor has vowed to do everything within her power to stop it.
There are a lot of questions swirling around the facility, and journalists Jose Davila IV and Nick Miroff join us to share what they’ve learned about ICE’s effort to reengineer warehouses into jailhouses.
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