Session #83 · 1953–55

Speech #830026132

I have seen that border. As soon as the sun goes down and the moon does not come up. they do not have to come over as a wetback. they can walk over on dry land. Now we are not considering immigration. we are considering a bill involving emergency farm labor. I think the gentleman has some basis for questioning this bill and if we were considering this as an immigration bill I would be opposed to it. But it is nothing more or less than a temporary emergency labor law. That is what the law is now and that is all we can make out of it. Here is another thing I would like to call attention to. The Department of Labor representative who appeared before our committee gave one of the best talks on this legislation that we had in the entire hearing. Certainly he knew firsthand that he was talking about emergency labor and not about immigration. Let us not get off on the immigration laws because you will have wetbacks coming in here. probably a less number of them because we get a better count. than you did previously. I know the gentleman wants to be fair.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM HILL
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
CO
Gender
M
Date
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Speech ID
830026132
Paragraph
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