Session #83 · 1953–55

Speech #830060786

Let me say that I understand that the recommendation was for $42 million. and now it has been reduced to $40.500.000. I referred to wetbacks merely because I know the Senator from Wisconsin is greatly concerned with immigration problems. Here is a case of illegal immigration. of a million people who are coming into this country every year by merely walking across the Rio Grande River. They do not even have to wet their feet. at the present moment. Yet nothing adequate is being done to prevent the great influx. which is a far greater menace to this country than the few undesirables who may come in under the immigration law.
Keywords matched
immigration illegal immigration

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
HERBERT LEHMAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
830060786
Paragraph
#0
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