Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago,… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the hands of… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
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… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the key to… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter.… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share
