Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090120003

We are suggesting that we are short of workers here. We want another 400.000 plus 20 percent every year for 6 years. or 4.7 million additional workers because we dont have enough workers in this country. What we dont have is enough courage and enough common sense to. first. increase the minimum wage and second. to tell those who are trying to employ immigrant labor at below standard wages. which they have done for years now. that you have to pay a decent wage at the bottom to get people to work. and that includes Americans. That includes our countrys workers. If this Congress has some common sense. we dont need guest workers. That is the other side of this immigration debate. the extra guest workers. We dont need them. What we need employers to do is to pay a decent wage.
Keywords matched
immigrant immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
BYRON DORGAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
ND
Gender
M
Date
2006-03-30
Speech ID
1090120003
Paragraph
#8
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