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" 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
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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First
" Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation. "
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Legal
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" If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity. "
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Someone
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" I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one. "
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" 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, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them. "
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Life
Help
" 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
" 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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" 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. "
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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
" The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Unit
Any
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here. "
Luis Gutierrez
Republican
Black
You
" DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers. "
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Immigration
Up
" Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. "
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Ignorance
Nation
People
" Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally. "
Luis Gutierrez
Policy
Immigration
Immigration Policy
" Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do. "
Luis Gutierrez
President
Because
Will
" 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. "
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Immigrants
Go
Find
" I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA. "
Luis Gutierrez
Twice
White
White House
" 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. "
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Will
Nobody
Never
" 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
" The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights. "
Luis Gutierrez
Marriage
American
Republican