Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100065827

How about this? Mr. Kris Kobach. a former Department of Justice attorney under Attorney General Ashcroft and a specialist on terrorism and immigration. agrees with Mr. Cutler. He posted an article on the Heritage Foundation Web site titled "The Senate Immigration Bill. a National Security Nightmare." The article states: The bill will make it easier for alien terrorists to operate in the United States by allowing them to create fraudulent identities with ease. Wow. is that a charge? Should we be hell bent to go forward tomorrow and move on to a bill that the American people reject and that could be called a terrorist dream bill that would actually allow and make it easier for terrorists to obtain fraudulent identity in this country? Mr. Kobach. a fine lawyer. now professor. goes on to write: Supporters of the Senates comprehensive immigration reform bill have revived it under the guise of national security. However. the new public relations campaign is a farce. The bill offers alien terrorists a new pathway to obtain legal status which will make it easier for them to carry out deadly attacks against American citizens. The top priority in this bill is extending amnesty as quickly and easily as possible to as many illegal aliens as possible. The cost of doing so is to jeopardize national security. That is a statement from a former Assistant Attorney General of the United States of America charged with these kinds of issues. now a professor. Well. we know this: We know the sheriffs along the border have absolutely been in an uproar over our failure to back them up in their. efforts to create a lawful border. Is anybody listening to them? The truth is. the Senate bill is not going to stop illegal immigration or even substantially reduce it. According to the Congressional Budget Office. the new Senate bill will only reduce net annual illegal immigration by 13 percent. There will be additional visa overstays: 550.000 by 2017 and up to 1 million 10 years later. according to the CBO. Now. I mentioned that it promised. at the beginning. a move to a more meritbased point system for evaluating those applying for citizenship instead of the muchcriticized chain migration policy we now have. The Canadians have adopted such a policy. after a very careful study over a period of years. and they are very happy with it. I talked to the head of the Canadian immigration systemMonte Goldburgabout it. He said they are very happy with it. They would like to take it even further toward a meritbased system than the current law by which they now admit 60 percent of the immigrants in their country based on a competitive skillsbased system. But. unfortunately. the bill fails to meet this goal. For the next 8 yearsalmost a decadeinstead of moving to a meritbased system and ending the chainbased system. chain migration will increase. After that. merit admissions will reach just more than onethird of all immigrants entering our country. So we will continue this system that. in effect. favors lack of education and lowskill workers. and denies entry to those who have higher skills. education. speak English. and have college degrees. How does that chain migration work? You see. if you are here. you got amnesty last time. or if you came here legally. you are then allowed to bring your wife and children. I think we should always have that. So I am not opposing wives and children. But under current law. you are allowed to also immigrate your parents. and your brothers and your sisters. You can bring a brother. and the brother can bring his wife and their children. and your sister. likewise. These would come based on their family connection only and not based on any skills they might offer to our country.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that undocumented immigrants will easily create fraudulent identities and become terrorists.
Keywords matched
illegal immigration visa immigrants chain migration illegal aliens immigrate immigration Immigration

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
2007-06-26
Speech ID
1100065827
Paragraph
#17
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