Session #102 · 1991–93

Speech #1020136125

It Is not the fact that we have a recession. my colleagues. It has nothing to do with that because this Nation has 250 million people. more than 250 million people. This Nation is able to absorb far more than 14.000 Haitians. We have absorbed 50.000 Hungarian freedom fighters. people from Hungary. some who were fighting for freedom and some who were Just fleeing. taking the opportunity to flee to a country with better economic circumstances. which is always the case when we have refugees. We absorbed 400.000 Cubans. Recently we absorbed large numbers of Salvadorans. a large number of people fleeing Nicaragua.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Hungarian freedom fighters Cubans Salvadorans Nicaraguans
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
MAJOR OWENS
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
1992-02-18
Speech ID
1020136125
Paragraph
#2
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