Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140086546

The victim in the killing fled El Salvador to live in Frederick because of an MS13 hit for him there. but the hit order carried to a local MS13 clique. The victim was lured to a wooded area where he was shot in the head and stabbed to death. "The growing alien gang problem has spread into one high school where fights and violence between MS13 And 18th Street are routine." That goes back to this important point about this administrations urging and luring people into the United States illegally by talking about the amnesty. talking about legal status. And as has been made clear by Border Patrol. when anyone in Washington. whatever party. either House or Senate. talk about legal status or amnesty. it creates a surge across our southern border. Having been there in the last few weeks. spending nights and days down there on the border. on the river. aside the riverand I do mean all hours of the day and nightyou see these things firsthand. You see little bitty children. The Border Patrol are told they came unaccompanied. There is no way these little children came unaccompanied across a river flowing that fast and that deep. Some of them alleged to have come from Central America. Over a thousand miles they journeyed unaccompanied? That is garbage. It is like border patrolmen have told meone in particular. he said: I am Hispanic. I speak better Spanish than most of them. Ninety percent of the time when they tell me they came to escape gang violence. I will hit them up: You may convince some gringo of that. but you and I both know you paid a gang to bring you in to the United States. And he said90 percent of the time the response isWell. that is true. but we were told to say we were fleeing gang violence. As other border patrolmen have told me down there. there is not one inch of our southern border that isnt considered the jurisdiction of some drug cartel. some drug lord. And if you cross within that sector without getting permission or properly paying. making sure the drug lord or the drug cartel is satisfied with your payment. then you will be sought and found and either killed or be forced to provide services until your debt is paid. That is why it is staggering when people down on the border. having come across illegally. are asked about how much they paid. It is not part of the required questions. but some of our Border Patrol are really wanting to know what is the going rate here for this sector: For people like you from the country you came from. what are they charging you? And you get different answers: $5.000. $6.000. $7.000. $8.000. maybe $10.000 for a group. The response comes back: How in the world could you have come up with that much money?
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that most undocumented immigrants are paying gangs to enter the US and lying about fleeing gang violence.
Keywords matched
border patrol Border Patrol

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
⚠️ Yes
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Criminal Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
LOUIE GOHMERT
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
2016-04-19
Speech ID
1140086546
Paragraph
#2
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