Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-07-13-pt1-PgH5763-4_t2

Secretary? To me this means that hundreds of thousands of people's lives, the lives that have been built in the United States, are about to be turned upside down. He wants to take hundreds of thousands of legally documented immigrants and make them undocumented and then go after them and their families. How does that make America great? Then there is DACA, the program where 800,000 children and young adults came forward and registered with the government, went through a background check and were rechecked periodically. Now Secretary Kelly says he thinks DACA is illegal, and, once again, it is out of his hands--and up to whom? Do you know whom he says it is up to? Attorney General Jeff Sessions--only America's number one opponent of immigration of any kind. So to me this is our call to action. The way we rose up to support women and Planned Parenthood, we have to do that again and again. The way lawyers and patriotic Americans stood at airports to protect refugees and religious freedom, well, now it is time to protect TPS, DREAMers, and other families in the crosshairs. We are going to have to organize, mobilize, and stand with our allies to protect families, to protect American citizens in those families, and to defend communities because these guys are serious. They want to deport millions of people, and they are coming after the DREAMers and those with deep, long-term lives in the U.S.
Keywords matched
immigration undocumented DACA immigrants TPS refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
refugees
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
LUIS GUTIÉRREZ
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
IL
Gender
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Date
2017-07-13
Speech ID
CREC-2017-07-13-pt1-PgH5763-4_t2
Paragraph
#3
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