Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090135369

Nobody is better than anybody else. We have one class of Americans. Yet by us ignoring our own laws on immigration. de facto we are starting to move into or create sort of a second class of citizen that does not really have any rights. They are not subject to the minimum wage or any of those things. They do not have a chance to be part of organized labor or anything like that. They simply come here and if they say anything. they are threatened that they can be sent back over the border. We are almost creating a second class of citizenship. and that concerns me a lot. I think it is absolutely time that we start to enforce the laws that apply to immigration in this country. There are some people who want to argue that we do not have a right to make any laws that control immigration. That is an interesting question. but we really have two choices. We either say we are going to open the borders wide open and no law is legitimate whatsoever. or we are going to enforce the laws we have.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
W. AKIN
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
MO
Gender
M
Date
2006-05-19
Speech ID
1090135369
Paragraph
#0
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