Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040196620

Mr. President. Americas immigration problem is not the highquality researchers and professors wading the Rio Grande in the dead of night or scrambling over a fence to avoid the Border Patrol. We should and can crack down on illegal Immigration. That Is a law enforcement issue. We should not allow that effort to serve as a Trojan horse for other measuresmeasures that would hurt Americas future by rejecting the very finest and most noble traditions of Americas past. To reverse course on Immigration. as some might recommend. is to say that America from now on will define itself as a country that is fearful of change. afraid of competition. and convinced that her best days are past. That is not the attitude that made America the greatest country the world has ever seen. An America that thinks itself as weak and threatened Is not the America that I see.
Keywords matched
Immigration illegal Immigration Border Patrol immigration

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
MICHAEL DEWINE
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
OH
Gender
M
Date
1996-04-15
Speech ID
1040196620
Paragraph
#1
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