Session #98 · 1983–85

Speech #980263214

We wrung our hands and did nothing. Mr. President. did we change our immigration laws one jot? No. not one jot. We turned back a ship. the St. Louis with 900 Jews aboard. to go back to Germany to burn. We could see that the world countenanced what Rafel Lamkin was later to call "genocide."It made us realize that we must do something to bring to the peoples attention the dreadful crime that is genocide. Among the people who turned the Jews back. who did not change their immigration laws one jot. was the United States. The only countries that substantially sought to help the Jews were the Dominican Republic and the Scandinavian countries. Mr.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
CLAIBORNE PELL
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
RI
Gender
M
Date
1984-10-01
Speech ID
980263214
Paragraph
#0
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