Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980254613

Mr. de Mesas wife. Mrs. Lourdes de Mesa. has since relocated in the United States and became a U.S. citizen through naturalization. She has continued to pursue her late husbands dream of uniting their family in America as U.S. citizens. Her hope of fulfilling her and her late husbands dream is quickly waning. Visa availability for the fourth preference category for adult children is backlogged for years in the Philippines. so it is unlikely that Mrs. de Mesa will ever be able to truly achieve the objective she and her husband intended many years ago. Passage of this bill will enable the United States of America to fulfill its promise to Jose B. de Mesa: eventual American citizenship for his family in return for his having served honorably on behalf of the Allied cause during World War II. Mr.
Keywords matched
naturalization Visa

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Family values Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
TED STEVENS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AK
Gender
M
Date
1984-09-18
Speech ID
980254613
Paragraph
#0
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