Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140106279

I will only speak in English. The gentleman is a person that we all know well. He cant pass up the opportunity to say something about immigrants and say something about English as the official language. Let me start off by saying this: I dont speak for any community. and I certainly dont know what other communities go through. But I can tell you that in the Hispanic/Latino community. when people sit around the dinner table and the issue of language comes up. it is not a plot against the English language. It is usually a conversation about how the children and the grandchildren no longer speak Spanish. they speak only English. That is just a fact. Number two. this assimilation issue. do you really think that someone would leave all their small belongings behind. leave in many cases their wife and their children to come into this country undocumentedassuming we are talking about undocumented peoplebefore they can find a way to bring the rest of the family. to not learn English. to purposely keep themselves away from immigrating into the American society? On the contrary. some of the jokes are that some of the betternot better. but strongerfeeling Americans. the ones who want to vote. the ones who want to wave the flag strongly and proudly. are people who came from other countries. Just about everybody has somebody that came from another country. either now or a long time ago.
Keywords matched
immigrating undocumented undocumentedassuming immigrants

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Hispanics Latinos
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural enrichment Family values

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOSE SERRANO
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
2016-07-07
Speech ID
1140106279
Paragraph
#0
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