Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970225061

I will yield in a moment. I have a few more remarks. Clearly. Mr. President. there is a need for a specific program for agriculture. In 1960. there were 400.000 U.S. migrant farmworkers. By 1970. the number declined to 200.000. In contrast. now the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that there are 300.000 to 600.000 illegal migrant farmworkers in the United States. It is not likely that a great number of the labor pool will qualify for the continuous residency requirement in the legalization program. Therefore. American agriculture must have some means to convert the current illegal work force into a legal one. and we believe that we provide that in S. 2222.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1982-08-13
Speech ID
970225061
Paragraph
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