Session #103 · 1993–95

Speech #1030120364

Why should we believe claims of big business that NAFTA is a winner. not a loser. for American workers when many of those same firms are the very ones that are laying off Americans and replacing them here In America with foreign. nonimmigrant workers. These companies have found a way to use cheap foreign labor even before NAFTA takes effectthey have brought foreign labor to them. Assurances that the Bush administrations NAFTA will be good for American workers must be viewed in the light of similar claims that American corporations would not abuse the immigration laws to bring in cheap foreign labor. Let me assure my colleagues that the victims of this immigration scam are American workers. who are losing their jobs. Within the same period of time HewlettPackard hired foreign computer programmers in California. it fired 2.700 of its employees In the San Francisco Bay Area. Americans cannot. and should never have to. compete with indentured labor. yet. that Is
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immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
Unknown
Party
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Chamber
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State
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Gender
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Date
1993-11-19
Speech ID
1030120364
Paragraph
#1
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