Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980114993

East Europeans. Southeast Asians all over the world having fled communism. There is no doubt that this will happen here close to home. and if people are concerned about jobs. and the availability of jobs. they will consider the fact that Communist regimes working their way up Central America will mean vast refugee populations entering the United States and that we will have great political and economic difficulty dealing with the influx. I urge my colleagues at this late hour to rethink their position on the Boland amendment to section 108. to defeat it. and to allow the alternative measure to pass. which links the cutoff of the aid with a symmetrical response by the Sandinistas and their Cuban and Soviet mentors.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
East Europeans Southeast Asians
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Security threat Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
DONALD RITTER
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
1983-10-20
Speech ID
980114993
Paragraph
#0
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