Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140061548

I would note the senior Senator from California characterized Kates Lawand this is a verbatim quoteas "going overboard and punishing everyone." Kates Law is targeted only to aggravated felons. It is only murderers and rapists and other violent criminalsthose who have committed aggravated felonies and have reentered the country illegally. So what the Democratic Party has attempted to do. what the Democratic leader has attempted to do is to suggest that incarcerating illegal immigrants who are murderers and rapists is somehow maligning or impugning immigrants. To the contrary. it is targeting violent criminals. I do not believe the millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules. like my father did. are in any way swept into a law that is targeting aggravated felons. Aggravated felons is a discreet category. Had Kates Law passed 5 years ago.
Keywords matched
illegal immigrants immigrants

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Criminal Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
TED CRUZ
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
2015-11-04
Speech ID
1140061548
Paragraph
#0
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