Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990259502

How can you say this is the House of the people if the peoples representatives are denied the chance to have a vote on the question of whether you are going to legalize 250.000 to 300.000 people whose only claim of a connection to the United States is they worked 60 days last year in agriculture? Thank God we do not extend it to ice hockey. because most fellows from Canada who come down here to play ice hockey play more than 60 games. Thank God we do not give it to every Italian singer who comes over here. or every international actor who comes over or every businessman who comes over here or every student. We grant student visas and students are in the United States longer than 60 days. Should we not give them citizenship rights because they have been in this country 60 days? Look at it the other way.
Keywords matched
visas

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
DANIEL LUNGREN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1986-09-29
Speech ID
990259502
Paragraph
#8
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