Session #71 · 1929–31

Speech #710096256

Nor. Mr. President. will the American people continue much longer to tolerate the influx of 50.000 to 75.000 Mexicans annually when we are denying the proper rate of immigration to the people of northern Europe. of Germany. and of the Scandinavian countries. and of Ireland. The Mexican immigration must halt. and halt soon. else the American Congress has played the part of a hypocrite in enacting the national origins law. No. Mr. President. the American farmer no longer submits to the seductiveness of the lightningrod agent. and you will not be able to fool tire American farner into the belief that he is going to receive any benefits from this proposed sugar increase. Whatever benefits are going to come to the sugar industry from this increase will go to the large planters who can employ Mexican labor. some will go to the large producers who may be able to inveigle some recent immigrant family into employment in their beet fields. but the benefits will go largely to the sugarbeet factory. So. Mr.
Keywords matched
immigrant immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans Irish Scandinavians
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
Unknown
Party
Chamber
State
Gender
Date
Speech ID
710096256
Paragraph
#0
← Prev Next →