Session #90 · 1967–69

Speech #900183750

The open border is based upon a longtime understanding and the marvelous feeling of friendship and cordiality which exists between our two countries. and I feel there is no reason to believe the enactment of the bill being introduced today would in any way jeopardize the openborder policy. Certainly it is not intended to end the commuter system. As I mentioned earlier in my remarks. what the bill would do. is simply take the sense of Congress on labor clearances for incoming aliens. which was included in the 1965 Immigration Act. and provide essentially the same standard on a periodic basis to permanent resident aliens who choose to live outside the United States. but who regularly commute to places of employment across the border. As I said earlier. I feel this is a reasonable approach to an outmoded system which adversely affects American workers and exploits so many Mexican nationals as well.
Keywords matched
Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Mixed
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
900183750
Paragraph
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