All Luis Gutierrez Quotes
- Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are. Create
- I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community. 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… Any
- 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… All
- 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… Apparently
- So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together. Bring
- 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… All
- 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… Accounts
- 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… According
- 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… Billion
- 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,… Fill
- 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… Ago
- 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… According
- Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. Fear
- The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. Any
- 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… Comprehensive
- 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… American
- 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,… All
- 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… Argue
- 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,… America
- 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… Applications