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" DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers. "
Luis Gutierrez
Who
Immigration
Up
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" 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 $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigrants
Go
Find
" Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally. "
Luis Gutierrez
Policy
Immigration
Immigration Policy
" The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes. "
Luis Gutierrez
American
Company
Chicken
" We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Immigrants
Legal
" I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one. "
Luis Gutierrez
Only
Congress
First
" We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one. "
Luis Gutierrez
Driving
Stand
Policy
" If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters. "
Luis Gutierrez
Support
Start
Most
" We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration. "
Luis Gutierrez
Government
American
Need
" 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 their Social Security numbers and personal health information. "
Luis Gutierrez
Control
Numbers
Identity
" The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings. "
Luis Gutierrez
Blame
Numbers
Immigrant
" Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests. "
Luis Gutierrez
Defense
Street
Financial
" Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change. "
Luis Gutierrez
Special
Blame
Change
" Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. "
Luis Gutierrez
Ignorance
Nation
People
" Obama the President needs to stand up for what Obama the candidate and what Obama the Senator and what Obama the Chicago community organizer stood for and lead the Congress towards reform. "
Luis Gutierrez
Community
Stand
Stand Up
" I remember clearly the afternoon I sat down with Obama. In December 2006, he was preparing for a family trip, and the decision to run weighed heavily on his mind. As a progressive member of Congress from Illinois, I was excited and energized by the prospect of my senator, and my friend, running for president. "
Luis Gutierrez
Run
Decision
Family
" Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Strategy
Security
" The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation. "
Luis Gutierrez
Own
Children
Hispanic
" The immigrant blame game is one of the most predictable, and most deplorable, elements of public debate in our nation. "
Luis Gutierrez
Debate
Immigrant
Nation
" We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time. "
Luis Gutierrez
Time
Earn
Lived
" While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue. "
Luis Gutierrez
Education
Top
Immigration
" The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were. "
Luis Gutierrez
Enough
Drive
Born
" I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them. "
Luis Gutierrez
Legal
Supreme Court
Power
" 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, every tax when they make a purchase. "
Luis Gutierrez
Sales
Tax
First
" I am a strong supporter of President Obama and was the first national Hispanic elected official to endorse him, and I want him to be reelected in 2012. "
Luis Gutierrez
Hispanic
Him
Strong
" 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. "
Luis Gutierrez
Process
Immigrants
Justice
" The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Unit
Any
" The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides. "
Luis Gutierrez
Passion
Difficult
Immigration
" BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big. "
Luis Gutierrez
Too
Because
Should
" 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. "
Luis Gutierrez
Help
People
Process
" 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 as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. "
Luis Gutierrez
Me
Forget
Security