DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time. — 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
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 should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on… — 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
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
Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops,… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We should allow DREAMers to declare that they are not criminals, that they want to be here, want to fully participate in… — 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
I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there… — 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
I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a… — 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 immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically? — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security… — 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
The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration… — 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 Image
If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue. — 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
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