Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990016703

We do not say that we are going to send troops to Germany. but we are going to try to select Germandescended Americans who speak the language. We do not say that we are going to get members from our American society of the Jewish faith to send them over to the Middle East. or. for that matter. of Arabic descent. We do not say. "Well. we are going to send only Asiaticdescended members of our society to go and be one of the 45.000 troops we have in Korea." Yet this is being said and done right now in my backyard. So I think that all of these are interconnecting developments. If we look at what we have lost. even with our next adjacent country. directly because of the miscalculated financial and economic judgments of our leaders in this country. we see that all of a sudden our balance of trade. which was the most favorable of all the countries we were trading with. with Mexico. is reversed. and we end up with over 20 percent unemployed up and down the border.
Keywords matched
Asiaticdescended

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Jewish Arabic
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
70%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY GONZALEZ
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
1985-03-28
Speech ID
990016703
Paragraph
#0
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