Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980213478

This amendment only says very plainly. let us find out if we need criminal sanctions before we have them in this legislation. This bill is not in concrete. Next year we can put criminal sanction. in if we find that these civil sanctions of $1.000 or $2.000 per unauthorized worker is not sufficient. But I think it would be an awful thing to say by passing this bill we are going to make criminals out of businessmen and women across this land. particularly in the gentlemans and my area. I would hope for equal enforcement by the services who will do the detection and apprehension of undocumented workers. but I am not sure that that will be the case.
Keywords matched
undocumented

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
RONALD COLEMAN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
1984-06-13
Speech ID
980213478
Paragraph
#0
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