Session #62 · 1911–13

Speech #620314669

J. Listen to this extract: My duties as prosecuting attorney of Somerset County. N..1.. have given me an excellent opportunity to check up in one Important particular the Investigations and conclusions of the Immigration Commission with reference to the illiteracy test. During the last two years I have kept a careful record of the last 114 criminal cases that I have prosecuted against aliens. with the following Interesting results. Now. let us see what these interesting figures tell us. Mr. Pope has prosecuted 114 cases against aliens. We know that out of every 4 immigrants 3 know how to read and 1 is unable to do so. You would expect this same proportion of illiteracy existing among alien criminals. In other words. out of every 4 alien criminals you would expect to find that 3 could read.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about the proportion of literacy among alien criminals based on the general immigrant population.
Keywords matched
immigrants Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Criminal Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
AUGUSTUS GARDNER
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
620314669
Paragraph
#0
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