Session #76 · 1939–41

Speech #760053303

Surely a little thought will reveal to them that the best way for us to protect America against undemocratic conspiracies is to make democracy work. Let us spend our time trying to help the 130.000.000 Americans whose welfare is our chief responsibility. We have no time to waste in unlawfully and unconstitutionally persecuting a handful of helpless and hopeless foreigners. And in these days when we pay constant lipservice to economy we should give heed to the fact that the enforcement of this bill would entail huge expenditures and a vast increase in the personnel of the Immigration Service. Surely Congress will not decline one day to provide adequate funds for the relief of human misery. and the next authorize wasteful expenditures for persecution.
Keywords matched
Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ORRICE MURDOCK
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
UT
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
760053303
Paragraph
#5
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