Session #89 · 1965–67

Speech #890120643

Why should we suddenlyand I say suddenlyafter 40 years. impose a ceiling of the character involved in the MacGregor amendment. This restriction would be utterly misconstrued. We would gain nothing. as I have indicated. except ill will from our neighbors to the south of us. During the period of extreme isolationismduring those socalled 40 years from 1924 onward when we sort of crept into a hole and tried to pull our skin in after us. we never placed any kind of a barrier on immigration from Canada or Mexico or Brazil or from the Argentine or from Chile or any country in the Western Hemisphere. Why should we do it now? Why pick out this time ofshall I sayperil?
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
EMANUEL CELLER
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
890120643
Paragraph
#1
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