Session #69 · 1925–27

Speech #690015103

A vast army of inspectors would be necessary to check up so many persons7.000.000. They would make life miserable for the alien. There would be fertile fields for oppression and graft. The alien flying from the European gendarmes now runs into an American gendarme. Second. Such a law ww-!d be violative of the spirit of the Constitution. It violates because of its discriminatory nature. Article XIV. section 1. of the United States Constitution. which guarantees equal protection of the law of all persons. citizens. and noncitizens. A similar bill was declared unconstitutional in California. and while we have one Secretary of the Presidents Cabinet. Mr.
Keywords matched
noncitizens

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
EMANUEL CELLER
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
690015103
Paragraph
#1
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