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How the coverage framed it

The five-point spread here reflects sharp differences in emotional register and narrative focus. At the left end, The Guardian's headline — "Death and fear stalk Haitians in Ohio city amid Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown" — centers victim harm through visceral language ("Death and fear stalk") and uses the explicitly negative descriptor "anti-immigrant crackdown," positioning enforcement as inherently hostile to a vulnerable ethnic community. The New York Times takes a different left-leaning approach, using hypocrisy framing to undercut a conservative official by noting he "employs undocumented workers" while backing ICE — notably using the left-coded term "undocumented" rather than "illegal." At the right end, National Review's headline "Immigration Policy Matters" strips away all emotional or human specificity, offering a neutral, policy-affirming frame that, within the outlet's known advocacy context, signals quiet pro-enforcement endorsement without explicit charged language. The center-right outlets fall between, using more procedural language while still acknowledging enforcement realities.