Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980217822

Twice they will come before the bureaucracy. What will happen to those individuals if they finally do not qualify for permanent resident status? I am afraid that there will be mass deportations if they do not qualify under the more than 32 qualifying provisions. But what I am really afraid of is that these individuals will not seek the benefit of legalization when the law passes. May I say that it also provides a twotiered legislation program that creates different classes of legal status with different rights attached to each. This undermines the intent of legislation which is to simulate undocumented aliens into the communities in which they live. That is the purpose of all this legalization process. But if this amendment were to pass. it then establishes the twotier system. but it establishes legally different classes of individuals.
Keywords matched
undocumented deportations

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD ROYBAL
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1984-06-19
Speech ID
980217822
Paragraph
#0
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