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ICE agents killed three people during recent operations. What do we know? 65%

7/16/2026, 1:17:14 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 23.8% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 396 faulty-reasoning hits from 235 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.7% and a BS Rank of 65% (5,881 of 16,737 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.90% of the article peer group.

Last week, an ICE agent shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston. 
He was on his way to work and not the target of the ICE operation he encountered. 
No photos or video of the traffic stop have been released. 
On Monday, ICE agents shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. 
Immigration advocates say Guerrero, a Colombian national, was authorized to work in the U.S. 
He was also not the target of ICE agents at the scene. 
On Tuesday, this week near St. 
Augustine, Florida, ICE agents approached a car with four men inside who then fled. 
One was hit and killed by a truck. 
The Department of Homeland Security says the 28-year-old victim was a Mexican national. 
Anti-ICE protests erupted in Maine on Wednesday. 
The Associated Press spoke to some of them. 
And President Donald Trump posted the statement “We CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” 
to his social media. 
The shootings come as ICE arrests have surged. 
ICE reported 10,000 arrests in five days alone at the end of June. 
In December, the month with the highest number of arrests under the Trump administration the agency arrested around 1,200 people per day. 
What do we know? 
And what does it mean? 
Confirmation Bias
14.5%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
20.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
16.2%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
23.8%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
6.4%
Primacy Effect
9.4%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
21.7%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
9.4%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
3.4%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
2.6%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
10.2%
Quote-first Misdirection
10.2%
Biased Writer Voice
10.2%
Indoctrination
10.2%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

235 words analyzed.

Analysis

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