Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090172601

It is a hasty. illconsidered. meanspirited measure that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. America can do a lot better than this. A wall of this magnitude will be a scar on the landscape. a scar on a fragile desert ecosystem. and a scar on our legacy as a nation of immigrants. My grandparents were immigrants. my parentsinlaw were immigrants. What does a 700mile barrier wall say about us as a free country? Most troubling. this bill would give the Secretary of Homeland Security unfettered power to decide what laws to follow. but even more important. what laws to totally ignore.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
PATRICK LEAHY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VT
Gender
M
Date
2006-09-15
Speech ID
1090172601
Paragraph
#2
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