Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050118854

During the debate on NAFTA. we admitted as a Nation that we were going to watch many of what we called the lowwage. entrylevel manufacturing jobs move off shore. but the new economy. the Information Age. was going to ping up our work force and create tens of thousands of jobs. Well. if we are going to import workers from other nations rather than spending money on schools. rather than spending money on training the students and retraining that displaced work force. what kind of a Nation are we? We should be looking at our people in this country. We certainly want to be a Nation that welcomes people. we have always done that. My family were immigrants from Europe. Other families are immigrants. We welcome that. But we also have a responsibility to give hope to the sons and daughters of the taxpayers who built this Nation.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Mixed
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
RON KLINK
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
1998-03-23
Speech ID
1050118854
Paragraph
#0
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