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
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 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.
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
That's unbelievable, ... It's unexpected. I thought they were just going to tell us, 'Look for another job.'
From a public policy point of view, it worries me that computer whizzes have more value and dignity than a person who cleans toilets or is a gardener,
I got seven text messages on the rallies the first two days alone, even though I didn't go to any of them.
There is so much talk in this Congress about family values,
There is a big split. We are just encouraging people to do whatever makes them feel comfortable -- but to participate in some way.
We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.
They want nothing other than that, and to remain together.
That is unfair, it is unwise, it is undemocratic, it is un-American to do such a thing, to impose,
It's a nice bump for us. People are in a festive mood, and they're looking for something to do.
Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.
We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.