Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040031978

All of us came from somewhere. I am glad my greatgreatgrandmother happened to be born in Baltimore Harbor. because that made my great grandmother a citizen. I guess we have to recognize that. that we are a nation of immigrants. because every one of us came from somewhere. Even Native Americans walked across the Alaska bridge to come here. We need to remember that when we are talking about it and not say that someone is here legally. because for many years we had no immigration controls at all. When a lot of our forefathers came. if you could make it here. that was fine. because we were building a country. We are still building a country. but we have immigration controls. and we are asking people to abide by the law. and yet these people who have abided by the law. we are now saying. No matter how many years you have invested in this country that you wanted to come here. nobody forced you to come here. that you have invested. now we are going to take these benefits away. or take something away from you.
Keywords matched
immigrants immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Native Americans
Sentiment
Mixed
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural historical_context

Speaker & context

Speaker
GENE GREEN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
1995-03-02
Speech ID
1040031978
Paragraph
#0
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