Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990010498

Now they have meat Zeronada. never. nothing. This is the horrible economic deprivation that always becomes entrenched after Marxism has had a few years to screw things up in a country. And the tragedy is that the first wave of refugees usually. is fleeing the fighting. and a lot of families are hunkering down in a cave or a little cellar and waiting for the mortar fire to disappear. It is the second wave of refugees that follows the consolidation of a totalitarian power. because they are fleeing from something that is just as painful as the concussion of a mortar shell or the pain of the flesh being hit with shrapnel. and that is that gnawing starvation and seeing their children die slowly in front of them. The wave of refugees from Afghanistan has been just as much from the economic deprivation of what the Soviets are doing there as the fighting itself. And certainly that is so in Central America. Most Americans should be aware of the fact that we have 500.000 new members of our country. proud and good citizens. every one of them. almost without exception. from Cambodia.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Cambodians
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT DORNAN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1985-03-06
Speech ID
990010498
Paragraph
#2
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