Session #71 · 1929–31

Speech #710271016

Frank J. Murphy. assistant general counsel of the Customs Bureau. did admit under the crossquestioning of Senator VANDENBERG that in spite of all the assurances the Treasury Department had made to us in the House that the small boats on that Canadian border from Ogdensburg to Duluth. some 1.500 miles. involving the travel of millions of people. would be dealt with so as to embarrass American citizens. and necessarily Canadian citizens also. I am happy to state I believe the vicious provisions of the border patrol bill will be killed. Now. you can spend millions of dollars to get the good will of the world. but when you call all the peoples of the world aliens and scum and garbage and riffraff. and when you put over these bigoted. fanatical. hypocritical laws on ourselves and reflect on foreigners you are not going to acquire their good will. If they can deal with a country that will treat them as equals and not as inferiors. and as rightliving human beings. then they are going to trade with that country instead of with us.
Identified stereotypes
Calling all the peoples of the world aliens and scum and garbage and riffraff.
Keywords matched
border patrol

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Canadian citizens
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT CLANCY
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MI
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
710271016
Paragraph
#1
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