Session #110 · 2007–09

Speech #1100073944

He was from Morocco. a French citizen from Morocco. living in France. He flew from London to Chicago and then. as we all remember in the 9/11 report. in particular. this guy. this terrorist with a passport. a legal passport. then enrolled in flight school in Oklahoma City. Thank goodness that we had very attentive FBI agents who recognized that here was someone that was in this country under the visa waiver program who overstayed his visa. Well. not really a visa. but he overstayed the 90 days. and. fortunately. we caught him. He was the 20th hijacker. To my near side are the photographs of the Fort Dix Six. These are the socalled pizza delivery guys who were going on the military base at Fort Dix. New Jersey. Many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle that represent New Jersey understand the potential horror that these guys. these guys. these terrorists that were here with a passport from a visa waiver country were about to inflict on one of our major military installations. Well. what I want to talk about now is what I plan to do about this problem with the visa program. not to expand it. The gentleman from California is absolutely right. The other Chamber. there are Members in this 9/11 bill that we passed back in January. and its about to go to conference. the Senate version being a little different than the House version. there were some Senators that wanted to expand the visa waiver program. not limit it to the 27. but to expand it far beyond that. As my colleague pointed out. his Senator from California. Senator FEINSTEIN. said maybe we ought not to do that yet.
Keywords matched
visa

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
PHIL GINGREY
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
GA
Gender
M
Date
2007-07-17
Speech ID
1100073944
Paragraph
#1
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