Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090135524

So I have some apologies to the people of this country because I made a judgment that amnesty in 1986 would solve our problems. and ignoring illegality. I find. has encouraged further illegality. and we have 12 million people now in the country illegally. Then I wonder whether. now that I am 72 years old. 20 years down the road when my successor is in office will they be dealing with an illegal alien problem of 25 million. Another thing I learned from 1986 was that we allowed family members of people who were here illegally to then come to the head of the line. and instead of legalizing 1 million people. we probably made it possible for 3 million people to be in this country as opposed to waiting to come in under the normal process. Then. the other part of it. to repeat. is maybe if we had been a little more on top of the employment situation in the United States in recent years. we would have changed our laws so that more people could come legally to this country to work.
Keywords matched
illegal alien

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
2006-05-19
Speech ID
1090135524
Paragraph
#1
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