Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040204892

They will be veterans. they will be children. they will be disabled. they will be sick. and all we are saying is that the sponsor will pay first. which is exactly what they promised to do. And so. if the sponsor. having been hit too hard. is pressed to bankruptcy. is pressed to destruction. is pressed wherever one would be pressed. then we step in. the U.S.A.. the old taxpayers step into the game -but not until the sponsor has suffered to a degree where they cannot pony up the bucks that they promised to pay. If the sponsor has the financial resources to pay for the medical care needed by an immigrant. why on Gods earth should the U.S. taxpayers pay for it? That is the real question. That is one that is easy to debate. Does any Senator in this Chamber believe that the taxpayers of this country would agree to admit to our country an immigrant if they believed that the immigrant would impose major medical costs on the taxpayers. and that the immigrant sponsor would not be providing the support that they promised to pay? Now. that is where we are. That is where we have been.
Keywords matched
immigrant

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
ALAN SIMPSON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1996-05-01
Speech ID
1040204892
Paragraph
#2
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