Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090182878

This is Alice in Wonderland." We are not talking about nightmare scenarios here. We are talking about todays reality. We have eliminated basic legal and human rights for the 12 million lawful permanent residents who live and work among us. to say nothing of the millions of other legal immigrants and visitors who we welcome to our shores each year. We have removed the check that our legal system provides against the Government arbitrarily detaining people for life without charge. and we may well have made many of our remaining limits against torture and cruel and inhuman treatment obsolete because they are unenforceable. We have removed the mechanism the Constitution provides to check Government overreaching and lawlessness.
Keywords matched
immigrants

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
PATRICK LEAHY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
VT
Gender
M
Date
2006-11-16
Speech ID
1090182878
Paragraph
#3
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