Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040201788

I have three of them. So that is where we are. But where we really are is dealing with illegal immigration and that is going to be difficult enough. I Just have been advised of a remarkable thing which I will put in the RECORDa news release that the INS has given us phony figures on legal immigration. Instead of 800.000. it would be closer to I million. and here they weretheir minions were giving us a press conference the day we are debating this bill on March 28 so that everybody could read up and see how we are diddling America. We do not need to do anything up here because the report released that day said "widely circulated." Oh. Indeed it was. They said. "Well. we reported what it was. We just did not spin the future." So they have left us now with a situation under any scenario where legal immigration is going to go up a million a year. and that they have lied to us and given us phony figures that there are at least 100.000 to 150.000 persons a year off. So now we are going to have that debate. Somewhere along the line we are going to have an honest debate about honest numbers.
Keywords matched
illegal immigration immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
undocumented immigrants
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1996-04-24
Speech ID
1040201788
Paragraph
#1
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