Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040201763

The bill would add alien smuggling and document fraud offenses to the ..st of predicate acts under our Nations racketeering laws. something many Federal prosecutors have told me Is extremely important. The bill would increase the maximum penalty for involuntary servitude to discourage cases like the one we saw recently. where scores of illegal workers from Thailand were smuggled into our country. then put in an apartment building with a fence around it and forced to work in subhuman conditions against their will in southern California. This bill would strengthen staffing and infrastructure at the border. and It would provide for facilities for incarcerating illegal aliens. It would require all land border crossings to be fully staffed to facilitate legal crossing. I can tell you that in San Diego. CA. at the border crossing gates. there are hours of waiting. There are 24 crossing gates at this one station. Only onehalf of them are manned.
Keywords matched
border crossing illegal aliens

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Criminal Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
CA
Gender
F
Date
1996-04-24
Speech ID
1040201763
Paragraph
#2
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