Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100065801

I value his thoughts on that and share his thoughts. actually. I want to move off of that and some of the comments that Senator DORGAN had about working Americans and what they are facing today. I remember addressing this point last year in the debate on immigration. I think it was at night when not many people were on the floor. Senator KENNEDY was here. I raised the question of what was happening to wages of working Americans as a result of largescale immigration. and quoted professors and experts who had demonstrated that where those areaswhere immigration reached its highest levels. wages had gone down for workers. they hadnt gone up. Now we are told that businesses cannot get workers. and we are told we are at full employment. but apparently something is awry if wages are not going up in many areas. I want to mention to you what we have with regard to the immigration bill that is coming before us. We will have cloture vote on it in the morning. This is what 1 want to say to my colleagues.
Keywords matched
immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
2007-06-26
Speech ID
1100065801
Paragraph
#0
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