Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-01-30-pt1-PgS469-2_t20

Americans, citizens-- ISIS gets its evil ideas in their heads, and they do terrorist things. John McCain, my colleague, the senior Senator from Arizona who is an expert on this stuff, said: This Executive order will encourage and increase the number of lone wolves. Here is another group that needs tightening, I would suggest to the President and his minions: those available in the Visa Waiver Program. If you are a country that has generally been friendly to us, there is something called the Visa Waiver Program, which means you can come into this country with very few questions asked, very little vetting. Refugees are vetted for 2 years. That is why not a single refugee from any of the countries that were proscribed by the President has committed an act of terror here--not a single one. I heard someone defending the President saying: Well, all these people would have come in; the terrorists would have come in had they done it slowly and announced a date. Well, we have done it like this for 15, 20 years, and we haven't had a single terrorist come in. What kind of absurdity is that? Anyway, the Visa Waiver Program allows people from, say, France and Belgium to come into this country with few questions asked. We have seen French citizens, Belgian citizens do terrorism. They would be allowed to come into this country to do it here.
Keywords matched
refugee Visa Refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES SCHUMER
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
Date
2017-01-30
Speech ID
CREC-2017-01-30-pt1-PgS469-2_t20
Paragraph
#4
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