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" 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
Bad
Support
America
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" 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. "
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" We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals. "
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" 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. "
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Power
" 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. "
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" Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message. "
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" In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country. "
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" We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be. "
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Community
" 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 issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides. "
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" If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here. "
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Black
You
" BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big. "
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Too
Because
Should
" I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos. "
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Immigration
Frustration
Chaos
" 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
" Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are. "
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Immigrants
Immigration
Hope
" Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally. "
Luis Gutierrez
Policy
Immigration
Immigration Policy
" I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA. "
Luis Gutierrez
Twice
White
White House
" Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do. "
Luis Gutierrez
President
Because
Will
" 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. "
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Support
Start
Most
" I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career. "
Luis Gutierrez
Parents
Puerto Rico
I Am
" 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. "
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Sales
Tax
First
" The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Unit
Any
" As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush. "
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Me
Immigration
Facts
" The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain. "
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Immigrants
Say
Years
" 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, jobs that are just about impossible to fill. "
Luis Gutierrez
Impossible
Work
Truth Is
" 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
" We should allow DREAMers to declare that they are not criminals, that they want to be here, want to fully participate in their society and get on the books. We should make college, work, and military service available to them. "
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Want
Work
Society
" 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 outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. "
Luis Gutierrez
Meaning
Real
America
" 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 to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that. "
Luis Gutierrez
Will
Nobody
Never
" We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest. "
Luis Gutierrez
Shoes
Cause
Believe