Session #71 · 1929–31

Speech #710127005

My good friend. I am not here at this time prepared to render a judgment or make a speech on closing the doors to Mexico and Canada. There have been quite a number of witnesses before the committee. and I want -to at least have an opportunity to vote and decide the case upon the evidence. I am not going to run away with any idea that the Mexican is coming in here to destroy our country. As a matter of fact. if the gentleman wants to know. if We enforced the present literacy test we could keep 70 per cent of the Mexicans out of this country. in fact. if we stretched a point we could do better.
Keywords matched
literacy test

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Canadians
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
SAMUEL DICKSTEIN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
710127005
Paragraph
#0
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