Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090135722

It should be a piece of legislation that considers the relevant issues facing our country and tries to fairly and decently and justly treat people who want to come here in a legitimate way. but fundamentally what we should be asking ourselves is how many people this country can accept and what kind of skill levels should they have. what expectation do we have that they will be successful when they come to this country and be able to take advantage of the opportunities that are here. to be able to pay taxes to the Government more than they draw from the Government. and those kinds of questions. That is what we are about. I submit that the legislation fails in that regard. I have four amendments. One is a numerical limit amendment. It would cap the immigration increases caused by the bill to the numbers CBO and the White House tell us to expect. 7 million under amnesties and 8 million in new immigrations in the next 10 years. We had somewhat of a dispute. This bill is 600 pages.
Keywords matched
immigrations immigration

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
2006-05-19
Speech ID
1090135722
Paragraph
#4
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