Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-03-22-pt1-PgS1900-6_t42

He said, Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally. To attempt to meet constitutional muster, Trump aimed his ban at immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations. Rudy Giuliani went on to say in that same FOX News interview: What we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger--the areas of the world that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible. And that's what the ban is based on. But, as William Banks, the director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University, observed, ``Since 9/11, no one has been killed in this country in a terrorist attack by anyone who emigrated from any of the seven countries.'' The President's own Department of Homeland Security recently reported that citizens from the countries listed in the Muslim ban are ``rarely implicated in U.S.-based terrorism.'' In fact, the report concluded that individuals who died in the pursuit of or who were convicted of terrorism were far more likely to be U.S.-born citizens than to be immigrants. Here is the great irony and the tragedy of President Trump's effort to demonize Muslims: Instead of protecting the United States, he is damaging the security of the United States. His attacks feed perfectly into and therefore strengthen ISIS's recruiting strategy of claiming that the United States is at war with Islam.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that immigrants from Muslim-majority nations are terrorists.
Keywords matched
emigrated immigrants

Classification

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

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFF MERKLEY
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
OR
Gender
—
Date
2017-03-22
Speech ID
CREC-2017-03-22-pt1-PgS1900-6_t42
Paragraph
#3
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