Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990159861

In this case. it is difficult to conjure and to bring on this House floor all of the tragic consequences that have occurred because of this mistaken policy. the 50.000 Salvadorans dead. the thousands inundating our borders nowfor in my city of San Antonio. I guarantee you. my colleagues. I can take you and show you where we have more Salvadoran illegals than we have Mexican illegals. which is what has been agitating your minds in the deliberations concerning the amendments to the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Surely we must realize that this is a failed and a bankrupt policy. that if we cannot after a heavy involvement. including some of our men who. today as I am speaking. contingents of our servicemen. are involved in the civil war in El Salvador. and where we have introduced the horrible machines of death that are killing in untold numbers of innocent women. innocent children. innocent peasants. where we have resorted to the resettlement socalled tactics of Vietnam and have uprooted entire hamlets unnecessarily. but because we are in not only forming the armed forces. but arming. guiding and making the key decisions. For every helicopter we have there now. which are the heavy Huey attack helicopters with socalled night vision gunning down innocent children. we have American pilots flying the reconnaissance for them. pointing.
Keywords matched
Naturalization Immigration

Classification

Also mentioned
Mexican illegals
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY GONZALEZ
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
1986-03-11
Speech ID
990159861
Paragraph
#0
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