Session #74 · 1935–37

Speech #740199524

Ritter. of Florida. Unless congressional action can be had before then it may be too late"It may be too late!" It cannot be too early. It may be too late to prevent deportation of 2.862 aliens of good character for whom the Immigration Service has recommended leniency. Senators. yesterday afternoon. during a period of more than an hour. having been advised that officials of the Immigration Service would claim to the Members of the Senate and to the Members of the lower House of Congress that those 2.862 persons were persons of good character. I brought to the attention of the Senate transcripts of the records filed in the office of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization. and I showed by the Departments own records that the aliens whom the officials would not deport. whom they themselves have violated the law in not deporting. were persons of bad character. Why. there was a fellow by the name of George Gaston Grenier. I remember his initials were "G.
Keywords matched
Naturalization Immigration deporting deportation

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Criminal

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT REYNOLDS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
740199524
Paragraph
#2
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