Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090114615

And we need to get people to go back to their home country. get in the line to come into the United States legally. not illegally. To give an example of what happens when you reward people for breaking the law. I recall a protestor that had signs out at an event that I attended some months ago. and those signs said. "I was an illegal immigrant. Now I am a United States citizen. Steve King is a" pick your adjective that you might want to describe me as. Madam Speaker. But it struck me that this individual was proud that he had come into the country as an illegal alien. but he was given amnesty in 1986 in one of the two times that my beloved President Ronald Reagan let me down. So the reward for breaking the laws of the United States was United States citizenship. And then he has contempt for the law and argues that we ought not enforce our immigration laws today. He was a beneficiary of not enforcing them in 1986. Now he is a United States citizen.
Keywords matched
immigration illegal immigrant illegal alien

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Criminal

Speaker & context

Speaker
Unknown
Party
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Chamber
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State
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Gender
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Date
2006-03-14
Speech ID
1090114615
Paragraph
#4
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