Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990082202

They found some. They arrested them. They happened to be legally present. but they were not illegal aliens. INS agents entered a field in Pasco. WA. for 29 straight days to search for undocumented workers. On some occasions. the agents drove their trucks across the bean fields causing substantial damage to the bean crop. Why should a farmer have to put up with that just because it happens that his workplace and his product is produced in a field rather than in a factory? And remember that statistic a little earlier. that from 85 to 92 percent of the illegal aliens in this country are not employed in agriculture. They are employed elsewhere. where a search warrant is clearly required. and yet 50 percent of the arrests have been in agriculture because that is easier to do. You do not have to get a search war. rant.
Keywords matched
undocumented illegal aliens

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JAMES MCCLURE
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
ID
Gender
M
Date
1985-09-11
Speech ID
990082202
Paragraph
#2
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