Session #81 · 1949–51

Speech #810190041

President. this just is not so. The fact is. however. that under the lax administration of the present lawand we have received testimony to that effect from men who know and who are operating the programSS men have been admitted into the United States. The junior Senator from New York admitted on the floor of the Senate a few days ago that the substitute permits persons of German ethnic origin. who were expelled from the eastern European countries. to use some fifty thousandodd visas which would be charged against the German quota. I believe the number is 54.000. But. Mr. President. if these people are Nazis. and if the junior Senator from New York has no sympathy for them. why does he provide in the substitute that they can have fifty thousandodd visas chargeable against the German quota? Is it because of the fact that under the present law. although the German expellees are granted 50 percent of the German and Austrian quotas. under the administrative practice relatively few have been admitted into the United States? In view of the practice which his been engaged :n.
Keywords matched
visas

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM JENNER
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IN
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
810190041
Paragraph
#2
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