Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Vicente Gutiérrezis an American politician and the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 4th congressional district, serving since 1993. From 1986 until his election to Congress, he served as a member of the Chicago City Council representing the 26th ward. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He is recognized as the "national leader on comprehensive immigration reform." In the 113th Congress, with his 20 years of service, Gutiérrez became the longest serving member of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
They may remove us, but there will be many others to follow,
According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
Our goal was to compete with a working robot. We were already victorious when we got there, and we ended up taking it all.
It is not better for America to do nothing about an immigration system that hurts families, hampers businesses, and harms communities.
Our bill ensures that national banks will be bound by state consumer protection laws, including predatory mortgage lending statutes.
If the federal government ends the peace by moving in to arrest these demonstrators, then it will be the responsibility of President Clinton, because he is the commander in chief,
I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and [Barack] Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that we can take a smaller group,' now apparently led by Senator Cruz - I mean, maybe he's gonna be the next Speaker of the House. Because it's quite clear that Mr. Boehner has no control over this conference.
So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.