Session #71 · 1929–31

Speech #710235738

Chairman. I move to strike out the last word. This has been a year for everybody to pick on the immigrant. One man would vote .to cut them down to 50 per cent. another to 90 per cent. while half of them do not know what the whole thing is ill about. Up to the present time there is not a claim from the Department of Laboi or the Department of State that they can not control the immigration problem. One gentleman a while ago spoke of some 79.000 aliens who had been prevented from coming in. A lot of people endeavored to come in through Canada whose papers were not correct. and they were turned back. and the same applied to Mexico. and they considered those illegal entries. Coming right down to illegal entries. there are mighty few that are absolutely illegal entries. There is no reason to be alarmed by the fact that we can not control the immigration problem. There is no one trying to get into the country who has no right to come in. The only man who gets into the country unlawfully is the bootlegger. and now by this law you are giving him another preminum. for he will charge more for his liquor than he does now.
Keywords matched
immigrant immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
SAMUEL DICKSTEIN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
710235738
Paragraph
#0
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