Session #101 · 1989–91

Speech #1010135824

Mr. President. the Comptroller General has today released a report to the Senate Immigration Subcommittee finding a widespread pattern of job discrimination in the implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The GAO report confirms exactly what many of us in Congress feared when employer sanctions were enacted in 1986. The sanctions would be discriminatory against HispanicAmerican citizens. AsianAmerican citizens. and other ethnic minorities. and it would be difficult. to implement the law is a way that avoids such discrimination. Under the terms of an amendment that I added to the 1986 act. the General Accounting Office was required to make three annual reports.
Keywords matched
Immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Hispanic Americans Asian Americans
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
EDWARD KENNEDY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
1990-03-28
Speech ID
1010135824
Paragraph
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