Session #82 · 1951–53

Speech #820209655

There were some votes in the Senate not long ago on the question of controlling of the wetback invasion from Mexico. It is very interesting to me to note that some Senators who are sponsors of the McCarran bill were the very ones who were not at all exercised or disturbed about whether a million illegal entrants came across the border from Mexico with the resultant loss of jobs by native American workers. I cannot quite understand the logic of those Senators on this issue. Here is a bill which supposedly will put up barriers against legal immigration. yet only a month and a half ago on the floor of the Senate efforts were being made by some Senators to check illegal immigration. and some of the sponsors of S. 2550 voted against our efforts. voted to check our efforts to stop the illegal entry into the United States of Mexican wetbacks. who would destroy the domestic labor market and. at the same time. abrogate the immigration laws. To me. it does not make much sense.
Keywords matched
immigration illegal immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
HUBERT HUMPHREY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MN
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
820209655
Paragraph
#0
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