Session #100 · 1987–89

Speech #1000108792

Honduras. Costa Rica. and El Salvador will begin to be undermined. The Mexicans will decide to appease communism even more than they already do and the number of refugees will start increasing. During the early nineties we will get. by the best estimates I have been able to find. between 10 and 15 million refugees. They will walk north across the Mexican border. They will come by boat. They will fly when possible. but they will do what we see them doing. If you think those numbers are large. remember. Afghanistan produced 5 million refugees in Pakistan because they could walk. Now. if you can get 5 million refugees out of a country the size of Afghanistan and you have a country the size of Mexico get scared. you can expect. based on the average we have seen since World War II. a minimum of 15 million and a maximum of 30 million refugees. Now. does anyone seriously think we are going to stop them? Do you think we are going to machinegun them at the border. do you think we are going to put up barbed wire? Of course not. Every time you hear a leftwing Democrat tell you. "Oh. we dont need the freedom fighters. we dont need to do anything about communism in Nicaragua." ask them in their congressional districts and in their home towns how many refugees do they want next year and how many will they accept annually in the 1990s? Because there is a second cost. At some point. whether it is Costa Rica or Honduras or El Salvador or Guatemala or southern Mexico. at some point we are going to get scared and when we get scared. there are not going to be any freedom fighters.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
NEWTON GINGRICH
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
GA
Gender
M
Date
1987-10-14
Speech ID
1000108792
Paragraph
#3
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