Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090133967

No surprise there. So if you are going to end up in a situation in which you have extra workers who are here. would you rather have them be of the highskilled variety or the lowskilled variety. unable to be as flexible in the job market as somebody with better education and skills? Our immigration law has always been very leery of allowing large numbers of undereducated and lowskilled workers into the country because they represent a potential expense for this country in the event that the employment that was promised to them does not materialize or goes away. So there is no need to take a chance on this. If. in fact. my colleague is correct that we will need more laborers. we can get them under a temporary program where permits can continue to be expanded. We can expand the number or they can be renewed. In any event. there is always the opportunity for people to acquire green cards. In fact. under I think all of the bills that are pending. the number of green card slots is increased. So there is also an opportunity for that. But in case they are wrong. and jobs evaporate over time. and even Americans cannot find work. why would we want to be granting these foreign residents who are here temporarily the right to be here permanently?
Keywords matched
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Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JON KYL
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AZ
Gender
M
Date
2006-05-18
Speech ID
1090133967
Paragraph
#1
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