Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040198110

She has sought for 2 years to find sanctuary in this country. only to be detained. teargassed. beaten. isolated and abusednot in some distant land. but the United States of America. The case has outraged women and men all over this country. What you may not know is that the conference report that we have before us would summarily exclude Ms. Kasinga from ever having made an asylum claim. a claim that I hope. based on the reported facts. is going to be granted without her enduring more suffering. You see she traveled from Germany coming to America. and traveled on a false British passport in order to escape mutilation in Togo. Under the legislation before us. she would be out.."Tough.
Keywords matched
asylum claim

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
PATRICK LEAHY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VT
Gender
M
Date
1996-04-16
Speech ID
1040198110
Paragraph
#2
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