Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970189060

I will sign them right now. You can have them all." In his concluding remarks Wallace said he went to our State Department and they said. "We have got quotas here. and we can only take 1.000 a month. and they know what the quota is." Well. the Government has reports that priests. that women. that ARVN officers. are being tortured to death in those camps and have been over the last 5 years. I believe this Nation. irrespective of the 500.000 Indochinese refugees that are legally in this country now. and keep in mind we have 500.000 illegal Salvadorans. that we have a moral obligation to empty out those 24 concentration camps and bring them temporarily to some respite in the free world and stop the torture for whatever many more years. if not decades. that those former allies of ours will have to rot in those camps. I intend to pursue this with the State Department. There is much to be learned about the Vietnam experience and our coverage of it which weak would be an unsatisfactory word to describe the coverage during and after that war.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Salvadorans
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT DORNAN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1982-06-17
Speech ID
970189060
Paragraph
#1
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