Session #88 · 1963–65

Speech #880049859

But. it is also true that if you repeal this Mexican bracero law and wipe out the legal method of getting Mexican labor. you are going to have a flood of "wetbacks." and somehow or other this House has never distinguished between wetbacks and braceros. There are no women and children with the braceros. That problem is entirely one of the wetbacks. There is no deportation from the United States by shipload across the Gulf of Mexico into some interior point of braceros. That is entirely wetbacks that the gentleman talked about. Those are the illegal entrants. and you wipe out the legal way of working in the United States and you but invite a repetition of the very scandalous situation that existed before we had this bracero law.
Keywords matched
deportation

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
WILLIAM POAGE
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
880049859
Paragraph
#0
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