Session #68 · 1923–25

Speech #680181222

In a moment. The intention was to keep up a decent standard of wages. to permit the wage earners in this country to live up to the American standard of living. Now. gentlemen. if you close the doors to immigration from Europe. as you have done in your last immigration law. and open the door at our border so that greedy exploiters of labor can go down to Mexico and bring up thousands of aliens in violation of the alien contract labor law and permit them to work at a low rate of wages and thus destroy the standard of living that we are trying .to establish and maintain. you defeat the very purpose of the immigration law.
Keywords matched
immigration contract labor

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
European
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
680181222
Paragraph
#0
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