Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140055083

Another project that flies in the face of congressional intentmeaning the intent of the 1990 lawis located in Lower Manhattan near Wall Street. As the New York Times reported. the Battery Maritime Building has been classified as being located in a targeted employment area based on a gerrymandered area that "snakes up through the Lower East Side. skirting the wealthy enclaves of Battery Park City and TriBeCa. and then jumps across the East River to annex the Farragut Houses project in Brooklyn." In other words. the developers did everything they could to include the Farragut Houses project. which is a public housing community. to come in at the lower investment level. The New York Times went on to say that "the small census tract that contains the Farragut Houses has become a gotoarea for developers seeking to use the visa program: its unemployed residents have been counted towards three projects already." That is the New York Times. Watchdog.org. a national watchdog group that has followed abuses of the program closely over many years. has also identified another problematic. gerrymandered targeted employment area. They reported that a 21story residential building project. which included trendy restaurants and shops. was built with foreign investments despite its location in an upscale neighborhood with only 0.8 percent unemployment.
Keywords matched
visa

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
2015-10-07
Speech ID
1140055083
Paragraph
#1
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