Luis Gutierrez Quotes

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• Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
• I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.
• I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I…
• The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass…
• 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…
• So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
• 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…
• As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and…
• 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…
• And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much…
• Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
• The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
• 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…
• Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of…
• Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes,…
• 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…
• And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat,…

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