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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points separating the most left-leaning headlines. Both ABC and the Miami Herald employed causal victim framing, directly linking the student's death to immigration policy, though with slightly different emphasis. ABC's headline — "takes his own life after losing TPS status" — centers the student's personal trajectory, noting he "just graduated high school" and citing an advocacy group as a source, which scorers flagged as left-coded institutional trust. The Miami Herald's phrasing — "Ankle monitor, loss of TPS blamed for death" — more explicitly implicates government mechanisms, presenting both the ankle monitor and TPS loss as direct contributors. Neither outlet adopted neutral or detached language; both framed policy as causally connected to the death. The absence of any counterframing or policy-defense perspective was consistent across all coverage examined.