Session #88 · 1963–65

Speech #880070234

Mr. Speaker. last week the House was told that the migrant way of life is difficult. I could not agree more. We were also told that the best thing we can do for migrants is to eliminate the need for migrating. because such a way of life is "cruel. undesirable. unAmerican." In fact. I am informed that migrant. nomadic life of any kind is cruel and undesirable and unAmerican. no matter who the migrant might beCongressman. baseball player. rodeo performer. or salesman. Since all of us here are often on the road or in the air traveling to and fro. I am sure that my colleagues will know what I am talking about. Migrating is cruel and undesirable and unAmerican. Therefore. we should do away with all kinds of migrants. and thus bring peace and tranquillity to our fastmoving country. If we had thought of this earlier. we could have prevented all that cruel migration that resulted in the settling of the West. We could have prevented the gold rush. the building of railroads. canals. and the rest of the countrybecause all that settling and building required a lot of migrating. In fact. if we had been foresighted enoughor our forefathers had beenwe could have prevented that migrant Columbus from having discovered America. But since all these tragedies are past. we should not worry about them. Rather. we should steadfastly look to the future to prevent migration and all its cruelties. Rather than permitting ourselves to migrate. we should find foreigners to do it for us. There are numerous areas in which we could use foreign workers to replace migrants. For example. we Congressmen could hire foreign replacements to do our traveling. Then. we could all stay at home and avoid the unAmerican experience of traveling to and fro constantly.
Keywords matched
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Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY GONZALEZ
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
880070234
Paragraph
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