Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050025292

It would stop dead In the water DEAs efforts to expand mobile enforcement teams that sweep through rural communities to weed out drug dealers. And it would severely set back our efforts to combat illegal narcotics on the southwest border. in Texas. California. New Mexico and Arizona. This shutdown proposal would strike a blow against our efforts to make American borders secure against Illegal Immigration and drug smuggling. It would devastate the Customs Service and the Department of the Treasury and the Immigration and Naturalization Service In the Department of Justice. The proposal would cut $61 million and 201 agents from the U.S. Customs Service.
Keywords matched
Naturalization Illegal Immigration Immigration

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT BYRD
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
WV
Gender
M
Date
1997-05-07
Speech ID
1050025292
Paragraph
#0
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