Session #84 · 1955–57

Speech #840018237

There is an enormous influx of those people which comes into western areas like West Berlin. The great attraction to coming into those areas is that they can find a new life in the free world. and if the great leader of the free world. the United States. keeps them out of its own country. obviously it is a disastrous setback to what we hope will be the magnetic attraction to bring them out. And finally. there are very heavy disabilities in the law against citizens who are naturalized as contrasted with citizens who were born in the United States. This is very much contrary to the whole spirit of this country. and yet it exists and we have the strange situation of where a person might be picked up 20 and 30 years after he is legally immigrated into the United States and shipped out because there is no limitation upon the fact that if he was found to have been guilty ofof some small crime before he came here. which somehow or other didnt get disclosed. or under some summary procedures get into difficulty about having joined some organization quite unwittingly which then turns up on the Attorney Generals subversive list. Were not talking about Communists and even fellow travelers. Were just talking about ordinary people who have no intention to do anything but be loyal Americans who get themselves in some small scrape and find after building a life here for years that under the McCarranWalter Act they have to be sent back now.
Keywords matched
immigrated naturalized

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
naturalized_citizens
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

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Unknown
Party
Chamber
State
Gender
Date
Speech ID
840018237
Paragraph
#2
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