Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050188155

Not give them more resources to hire more INS officers and Customs officers to do the job. but. no. send the armed forces. which is trained not to surveil. not to guard. not to interdict but to kill. What a statement we are sending to the men and women who day after day put their lives on the line trying to do what we say we need to have the Army do. If one really believes we need to put more on the border. and we do. then give the INS Border Patrol. give the Customs agency more resources to hire people who are trained to do exactly that. Do not try to have our men and women who are trained to do something different in the armed forces all of a sudden go into a foreign atmosphere and now try to do the work. because when you do. what happens? Folks like Esequiel Hernandez are killed.
Keywords matched
Border Patrol

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
XAVIER BECERRA
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
1998-09-16
Speech ID
1050188155
Paragraph
#0
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