Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990020186

Let us go to the second phase of my advice to the privileged orders and my colleagues. what you are about to emerge into south of the border. It has been so remote to the overwhelming preponderant number of Americans. When we have the question of immigration laws and reforms. every one of our acts has been out of fear. an inordinate fear. Never has it been based by the overwhelming preponderant majority of these members as a reality along the border or for that matter along our shores. We forget. because of the publicity given the southern borders. that more than 40 percent of the illegal flow of immigrants into this country is not across the Mexican border. We have one of the heaviest Asian illegal immigrations into this country and yet it is relatively unnoticed or unreported. Yet in shaping the laws here there is oblivion as to: First. the immediate thing. and second. the underlying cause. Nobody talks about why.
Keywords matched
immigration immigrants illegal immigrations

Classification

Also mentioned
Asian
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY GONZALEZ
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
1985-04-16
Speech ID
990020186
Paragraph
#1
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