Session #75 · 1937–39

Speech #750146770

President. it is a fine thing to spend billions of dollars for protection. and it is a fine thing to spend money in building up an army and a navy. and all that sort of thing. to keep out of war and to protect our people. but I remind the American people at this hour that we can spend billions upon billions of dollars in preparing ourselves for the enemy. but it will be billions upon billions of dollars wasted unless we are able to protect ourselves from within. The danger to the American people that will exist in case of war will not be from without. the danger that confronts us today is from within. because there are within the confines of the United States today about 125.000.000 to 130.000.000 people. and of that number I assert that there axe 7.000.000 aliens. When I employ the term "aliens." I mean that there are 7.000.000 people in the United States today who are not Americans. who have not been naturalized. 7.000.000 people who have come into this country either legally or illegally. a statement which nobody can successfully dispute. Some may state that there are only 3.000.000 aliens in this country. some may say there are today only 3.000.000 foreigners in the United States who came here legally or illegally. and I cannot dispute that statement successfully. because when I say that there are 7.000.000 aliens on American soil usurping the jobs of American citizens I am merely guessing at it. and the man who states that there are only 3.000.000 aliens in the United States usurping the jobs of American citizens does not knowhe is merely guessing. In other words. none of us know how many aliens there are in the United States today. who they are. or where they came from. because we have never made a census of them. and we do not know.
Keywords matched
naturalized

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT REYNOLDS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
750146770
Paragraph
#0
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