Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040267256

If you are here legally and you are HIV positive. you may not get any treatment if you need Federal funds. If you are here legally and you contracted this terrible illness. which they profess to think is something we ought to fight. then you are. by this bill. condemned to death. with no help. because you cannot get Federal assistance. I guess when they tote up the death penalties that they want to take credit for. they ought to add one: Legal immigrants here with HIV illness. They created an exception for communicable diseases. but then they created an exception to the exception. so that if you are here legally and you get HIV. no matter how. and. by the way. we have changed the law. I did not agree with it. but this is the law. no one is now challenging it. so if you are known to be HIV positive and we test you. you cannot come in.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
BARNEY FRANK
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
MA
Gender
M
Date
1996-09-25
Speech ID
1040267256
Paragraph
#4
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