Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140008142

I think those of us who believe in Executive leadership and honest leadership. where leaders talk directly to the people about the serious problems we face. have to be troubled by this trend with this administration. Sometimes it makes me fear for the future of the Republic. He accused Republicans of "defunding the very operations that are involved in making sure weve got strong border security." He said Republicans are blocking funding of that. Nothing could be further from the truth. The House of Representativesthe Republican Househas passed a bill with $40 billion. funding fully. as basically the President requested. all the agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. It has one little catch to it. it bars the President from taking money from the Department of Homeland Security that is supposed to be used to enforce the law and using that to grant amnesty and to undermine the law. The House bill is not in any way undermining the security of the United States of America. the ability for Homeland Security to protect us from terrorists. In fact. it strengthens that ability because it keeps the money there and uses it for those purposes. whereas right now the President is spending over $100 million to create a structure across the river that would hire 1.000 new people in Homeland Security to process amnesty applications for people who violated the law and to give them the right to have earned income tax credit benefits. a Social Security card. the ability to take any job in the American economy that maybe an unemployed American would like to have or a recent immigrant with a green card would like to have. No. this person who entered the country now unlawfully gets to take that job under this policy. Congress did not fund that.
Keywords matched
green card immigrant border security

Classification

Also mentioned
immigrants_general
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural Criminal

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
2015-02-09
Speech ID
1140008142
Paragraph
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