Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-05-24-pt1-PgS3116_t1

I guess Donald Trump wants low-income Americans to freeze in the dark. This is shameful and reprehensible. Yes, there is money for some advancements--the advancement of the so- called border wall with Mexico. I visited Mexico just a few months ago. I visited the U.S.-Mexico border. I couldn't find one border security guard, security personnel, who felt that building a wall made any sense. It will not keep out the illegal flow of people or drugs, and it will compromise our ability to work with our neighbors in the south to control immigration and to control drugs. The President's Executive order on immigration and the President's fiscal year 2018 budget ramp up deportation forces inside the United States, which will do more to harm our national security and public safety than to help. We shouldn't be moving in that direction. Legal Services is one of the areas I worked on for a long time with my Republican colleagues to make sure we fund the Legal Services Corporation.
Keywords matched
immigration border wall border security deportation

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
BENJAMIN CARDIN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
MD
Gender
—
Date
2017-05-24
Speech ID
CREC-2017-05-24-pt1-PgS3116_t1
Paragraph
#2
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