Public relations professionals engineer acceptability for policy, such as child immigrant detention, through key messages. Agenda building, engineered frames, and rules theories guide study of spokesperson attributions from 221 articles from January 2017 to October 2019. Findings show attributions to U.S. government spokespersons appeared most in stories. Journalist inquiries were declined at times by spokespersons citing legal and privacy arguments. While all spokespersons addressed the vulnerability of detained children, government spokespersons framed adult immigrant criminality as causing children harm. Opinion polls show government efforts to present child detention as a law-and-order issue appears to clash with cultural rules that value child well-being.

公共关系专业人员通过关键信息设计政策的可接受性，例如儿童移民拘留。从 2017 年 1 月到 2019 年 10 月，议程构建、工程框架和规则理论指导了对 221 篇文章的发言人归因研究。调查结果显示，美国政府发言人的归因在故事中出现最多。发言人有时以法律和隐私为由拒绝了记者的询问。虽然所有发言人都谈到了被拘留儿童的脆弱性，但政府发言人将成人移民犯罪定为对儿童造成伤害。民意调查显示，政府将拘留儿童视为治安问题的努力似乎与重视儿童福祉的文化规则相冲突。