Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970274867

Chairman. sometimes it takes humor or an analogy to make a point. During the height of the crisis in human rights and civil rights in my district. we had a local supermarket that printed a subject that I thought was rather interesting. It says under the title. "Illegal Alien Bananas": Botanists have confirmed to Swensens Markets that it is technically possible to grow bananas in some parts of the United States. but domestic bananas never work as well as the ones from south of the border. so foreign bananas have been arriving in ever increasing quantities and this week the Bananas Border Patrol offered to sell Swensens a large quantity of green bananas. Well. Swensens are no dummies (dont say anything) and they became very suspicious why the Bananas Border Patrol. which Is supposed to be watching the border (you know. keeping out illegal bananas) is selling bananas in Southern Idaho. Sure enough. the Bananas Border Patrol was Just trying to cause trouble by selling illegal bananas. The whole thing gets pretty tricky because the people who use bananas cant taste the difference between legal bananas and illegal bananas. Swensens think its high time the Bananas Border Patrol went back to the border where they belong or else start doing some productive worklike moving irrigation pipe.
Keywords matched
Border Patrol Illegal Alien

Classification

Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
GEORGE HANSEN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
ID
Gender
M
Date
1982-12-17
Speech ID
970274867
Paragraph
#0
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