Session #88 · 1963–65

Speech #880049885

How can you do it when Americans are hungry and do not have jobs?" The short answer is that you are not going to help Americans by killing this legislation today. You think It will but you will not. I share the concern about the American migrant worker. We must do something for him. If. we can get constructive migrant labor legislation I will support it. It is a shame that in this great. prosperous country with cars in every garage for most of us. good food. paid vacations. television. and all the rest thatwe have left this small number of Americans at the bottom of the economic totem pole. These people have a right to their share of our general prosperity. The farmers who grow oranges. beets. tomatoes. peas. and the other crops did not cause the migrant labor problem. The bracero program did not cause the plight of the migrant workers. The problem was here before the bracero program and It will still be here tomorrow even if we vote this program down today. We are told that defeat of this bill will make jobs for Americans.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
MORRIS UDALL
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
AZ
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
880049885
Paragraph
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