Session #87 · 1961–63

Speech #870142314

But if wages are adequate and the workers are paid enough. the producers can get American workers. It has been said that if the program is not extended in its present form. we will have the wetback problem again. The outstanding authority on immigration is the Commissioner of Immigration. appointed by President Eisenhower. and reappointed by President Kennedy. He has said. in a letter to the Senator from Minnesota . that the bracero program did not retard wetbacks. it did not have any effect on wetbacks. Not a scintilla of justification has been offered for the oftrepeated contention that the alternative to this program is the influx of thousands of illegal Mexican aliens.
Keywords matched
Immigration immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM PROXMIRE
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
WI
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
870142314
Paragraph
#0
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