Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090132360

Lets look at what it requires. No. 1. a penalty. It is true. the underlying bill means a person has to pay $2.000-$2.000--which is less. in some cases far less. than many legal immigrants pay to go through the legal process. Is it a penalty when the amount of money required is the same or. in many cases. less than a person who is following all the rules. doing everything we ask of them. following the law. living by the law. becoming a legal immigrant and a full citizen through the legal process? No. 2. pay all their taxes. Well. not all their taxes. A person doesnt have to pay all of their back taxes. They have to pay a certain number of years. they do not have to go back for the entire length of time that person was in the country. Again. they are being treated better than the folks who have lived by the rules from the word go than the folks who are citizens through the legal immigration process who have had to pay taxes every step of the way. Those folks who live by the rules have to pay all their taxes. These folks do not have to pay all their back taxes by any stretch of the imagination.
Keywords matched
immigrant immigrants immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
DAVID VITTER
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
LA
Gender
M
Date
2006-05-16
Speech ID
1090132360
Paragraph
#2
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