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" Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do. "
Luis Gutierrez
President
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Will
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" We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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? "
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