Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040203004

As I look at the material circulated by those who do not concur with my view. there are. remarkably. only two or three things outlined in there. The one that is most interesting is that it will shut out nearly 2 million relatives of U.S. citizensrelatives of voters. Get the word underlined "voters." Let me tell you. ladies and gentleman. there are a lot more voters out there who want to do something with illegal immigration than voters who want to protect a certain group in society. If you are missing what voters do here. do not miss that one. I can promise you that is the way that is. So I do not see any other way to be sure we are reforming immigration policy in a way that will actually make the American people better off as they themselves judge to be better off than to try to find out the extent to which they actually like and embrace what is happening. As I noted earlier. I proposed a very modest reduction--only 10 percent for the next 5 years. But this would be In sharp contrast to the substantial increase that would otherwise occur during this period under either the committee bill or current law. This first amendment will provide a true preference in the granting of visas to those family members most likely to live with their relatives in the United States. That Is what people say they want. We want the nuclear family.
Keywords matched
illegal immigration visas immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1996-04-25
Speech ID
1040203004
Paragraph
#7
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