Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970225158

On its face. I think we might believe that that amendment would seem appropriate. In other words. why should not the families of the former illegal aliens have to wait until all of those who have been patiently waiting in the backlogs. legally. have been admitted? Also under our law they would go to the end of the lines to wait in the backlog in any event. However. if none can come in until all previously backlogged aliens have been admitted it means this: it means that spouses and minor children of former illegal aliens would have to wait until all of the backlog brothers and sisters. including adults in the fifth preference. had been admitted. That will take years and years. since we only gave them a rather small percentage of the available visas to use for those who are in the pipeline already. There are 700.000 persons in the fifth preference backlog. alone. just that one alone. It will be an extraordinary number of years before all of those brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens are admitted and they are in the pipeline.
Keywords matched
visas illegal aliens

Classification

Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Family values Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1982-08-13
Speech ID
970225158
Paragraph
#0
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