Session #102 · 1991–93

Speech #1020129420

I do not know whether there is any word out there which talks about whether or not you are fleeing from economic or political persecution. It seems as though our President and our State Department would like to make some type of determination whether these people who are risking their lives on the high seas are victims of economic bullets or victims of political bullets. How can you be Just an economic refugee? Was the coup. the taking over of this country and the threatening of the president. was that economic? Was the military actually chasing our ambassador and killing Haitian representatives. was that economic?
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES RANGEL
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
1992-01-23
Speech ID
1020129420
Paragraph
#0
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