Session #85 · 1957–59

Speech #850085286

The disturbing fact is the present and acute shortage of scientifically trained manpower. a shortage that fails to meet the needs of our expanding. industrialized society. I propose a twopoint program to alleviate this shortage: One. To amend the immigration law by establishing a special annual quota to permit 25.000 qualified scientists and engineers from Communist or satellite countries to enter the United States each year. They would be refugees or escapees who would be carefully screened. both as to their competence. and their opposition to communism. In this manner. we would attract a number of "readymade" scientists to meet our own needs. and at the same time we would be draining skilled personnel from the Communist countries. thereby weakening their capacity for aggression. Two.
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immigration refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Security threat Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
THOMAS LANE
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
850085286
Paragraph
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