Rep. Gutierrez: Latinos Have Lost Patience With Obama on Immigration
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 11:28 am
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who campaigned for Barack Obama during his election, is becoming increasingly displeased with the president’s stance on immigration. Gutierrez said Latinos could stay home in November if Congress and the administration fail to act on immigration reform, The Hill reported this morning. Gutierrez has been one of the most outspoken advocates for reform, and he says the Latino community has lost patience with an administration that focuses on enforcement-only policies.
Some Democrats have felt little urgency in pursuing the controversial issue, partly because they see no risk that Hispanic voters will bolt the party for the GOP. But Gutierrez says they are missing the real political consequence of inaction.
“We can stay home,” Gutierrez said in an interview with The Hill. “We can say, ‘You know what? There is a third option: We can refuse to participate.’ ”…
When Gutierrez talks about his old Chicago neighbor, he speaks of “anger, disillusionment, dissatisfaction” and “betrayal.” He says Obama has failed to keep his campaign commitment to immigration reform, and he decries what he calls an “enforcement-only” policy in which the administration has deported more undocumented immigrants than in the final year of the George W. Bush administration.
Gutierrez says Latinos have lost patience with Obama, and he predicts an “escalation” of activism aimed at forcing immigration reform to the fore of the party agenda.
“We’re going to make it uncomfortable for the Democratic Party,” Gutierrez said, adding that immigration advocates would step up the pressure by drawing lessons from the movements for civil rights and women’s suffrage. “There’ll probably be civil disobedience. There will probably be a number of different actions. What we have to do is we have to break through this wall of silence, because we’re invisible.”
Gutierrez, who doesn’t mention Arizona’s immigration bill in the article, is holding a press conference with other lawmakers today to denounce that bill. He also comments on Obama’s nomination of a Latina to the Supreme Court, saying “So big deal…About time!”
Update: Gutierrez clarified a statement he made during this interview with The Hill in a press release after his conference today:
The political imperative could not be more clear. A headline today (in The Hill) said I would encourage Latino voters not to vote for Democrats if the President and Congress fail to enact immigration reform and I want to say I don’t think that is what I said. What I did say is that Latino and immigrant voters are likely to stay home if their options are a Republican Party actively pushing them away and Democratic Party doing little or nothing to draw them in. They don’t need me to tell them to stay home and I haven’t, but the very real problem exists for the President and my Party that Latino and immigrant voters remember the promises they heard and are tuned-in enough to see they haven’t been kept.
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Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
If immigration reform is not enacted before the Nov elections, it will not happen in the foreseeable future. It is now or never for immigration reform.
Any talk that something could be passed after the elections in the lame duck session is disingenuous at best. Catastrophe is looming as Obama's enforcement only policy continues.
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Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 8:05 pm
Americans have lost patience with Latinos and their preference for putting loyalty to their “race” ahead of loyalty to their country.
Comment posted April 20, 2010 @ 11:17 pm
Arizona Immigration law.
It’s being called the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration in the country. A bill requiring local police to determine if a person is in this country legally is expected to be signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as reported by CNN cable TV. According to the 175 comments listed on the website, people against the Arizona illegal immigration enforcement law I counted was 46. To fully enforce the new immigration law, that potentially should be signed into existence by Governor Brewer was 129. Their was no bias in this article regarding this ultra serious law from CNN, just explaining what has been enacted by the state legislators. So the usual open border, Democratic-Liberal-Marxists extremists, pro-amnesty politicians are already screaming racial profiling and every other wrench in the cogs to promote the importation of foreign labor
SIMPLE ANSWER IS TO PUT FEDERAL TROOPS ON THE BORDER, TO REINFORCE THE UNDERMANNED US BORDER PATROL AND LIMITED COUNTY SHERIFFS AND POLICE. AS I HAVE ALWAYS SAID ALONG WITH A HUGE PART OF THE POPULATION, THAT OUR LAWS ARE ONLY SEEN TO BE ENFORCED. WHEN THE ARE INTENTIONALLY MEANT TO FAIL. America is only one of industrialized nations that restrict millions of impoverished, destitute illegal foreigners, THAT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE FORCED BY THE IRS TO FINANCIALLY support. Nobody should be allowed into America unless they can support themselves. That hundreds of thousands are sponsored by relatives, but eventually leave it up to the US taxpayer to subsidize their families. Guess the illegal immigrants will head lock-stock-barrel for the refuge state of California, as there is lots of welfare freebies there. Nor should we forget the murder of RobertKurtz, a Arizona rancher by an illegal drug smuggler on his own land.
We could underwrite our foreign wars with the billions spent for the fiscal livelihood of the 20-30 million illegal aliens squatting here. US taxpayers have an unprecedented battle on our hands to stop the travesty of a impending push for immigration reform–Amnesty. You the taxpayer must enter the fight or we will become a cesspool of everybody who can climb our border fence (where it exists) Where people leave the airline terminal with no intention to leave America. Arizona did the right thing and I only hope other states follow, with California-The Sanctuary state doing something-anything? Get ready to remove Pro-Amnesty Sen. Harry Reid, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Schumer, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi and other proponents. Sen.John McCain and Sen. Harry Reid should be first to be voted out and a resonating example made of them. Learn everything you wanted to know about the illegal immigration invasion at NumbersUSA..
PS: Before Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Roman Catholic archdiocese speaks out about immigration enforcement, he needs to get his own house in order. With more and more pederast priests being hidden away in dark corners or absconded to a far distance churches.
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Comment posted April 21, 2010 @ 2:57 am
The poor man. I feel so badly for him…NOT!
Bring on the troops!
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Comment posted April 22, 2010 @ 2:37 am
The toughest crackdown will eventually come from the American peoplesooner than one may think.
We are sick to death of this tsunami of illegal aliens who run? away from their country, then arrogantly expect us to move aside, and give them the keys to the country – provide the means for them to feed their families, cover the cost of their hosptialization, suggest we learn their language instead, school their illegitimate children as if they are equal, cover the unsurmountable property damage, fraud, identity theft, welfare, vote illegally, drive illegally, steal, murder, rape, expect what they don't have the guts to do in their country – but expect from US taxpayers are parasites, as are racist groups such as MALDEF, (and countless others), traitor and illegally elected Loyal to Mexico Congressman (although he is Puerto Rican), Luis Gutierrez, and the shameful Cardinal Mohoney. This is an invasion, plain and simple. It is demographic warfare.
Unlawful Entry is a CRIME. Love it or leave it. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators! No amnesty, no “stealth-amnesty.” No “change of status,” marriage fraud, “exceptional leave to? remain,” no “Temporary Protected Status.” If you break the law, depart or be deported. Illegal aliens kill more US citizens each year than the war in Iraq has killed in four years. Apologists for illegal immigration like to paint it as a victimless crime. But in fact, illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population–the poor, minorities, and children. Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants willing to work at ridiculous? Third-World substandard wages, and working conditions depresses the wages of American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees. Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population explosion, (which the racists want), cultural changes now overwhelming communities across America – crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and straining precious natural resources? like water, energy, and forestland. Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the free health care, education, and other welfare programs being given to illegal aliens, as well as property damage, etc; Those tax dollars could be given back to U.S. taxpayers or used to keep our borders secure; They may be here illegally, but but they sure know how to “work the system” to collect “free” medical care, “free” education, “free” food, Section 8 housing vouchers and other housing assistance, and hundreds of other social services.
It costs citizens additional hundreds of billions of tax dollars at every level: local, state, and federal. It gobbles up billions of? our charitable contributions.
And much of that money ends up siphoned out of our economy and into offshore accounts. Illegal aliens, over half of whom work “under the table” with neither job nor income reported (nor taxed), are not counted as employed or unemployed. But some of those day-labor and off-the-books “job-lets”? would be “real” jobs – available to American citizen job-seekers – if employment regulations were enforced. Illegal aliens can get away with tax evasion, et al., which citizens cannot. In short, we have too many workforce entrants and too few jobs created.
Illegal immigration damages our country and our? sovereignty every day at every level. Not even the attacks of 2/26 and 9/11 have awakened many Americans to the vast dangers illegal immigration poses to our selves, our families, our communities, our society, our values, our principles, our civilization, our culture, and our? language. We must have zero Tolerance for Immigration-Law Violators (despite what Mexico, these loyal to Mexico racists, and the illegal alien supporters think). We must remember the lessons of 2/26, 9/11, and the costs we bear every and every single day. Enough is enough!
Many of you have left the American male out of the equasion as if we are powerless and will allow you the pleasure of the Mexification of our country.
You are going to learn a valuble lesson. We will not lose our country to you.
Comment posted May 16, 2010 @ 11:09 am
I state that Mexicans and Hispanics will Not get another Amnesty, and the First Amnesty will be Revoked by Constiuitonality. and We have smelled you foreign Invaders, and Now the Americans People, Black, White, Red, have awakened. You and All Your supporters in Congress will have to go to Mexico with you. Because when a Threat is in America. Watch how Fast Blacks and Whites and Reds will Step Up. We did it Before We will do it Again. America is Providenced by the Creator, and it is the Example to the World. And For the World Sake Mexicans or mexico, the Senate the Judges and All these Traitors of America will be Called byy A citizens Grand Jury and Charged with High Treason!
Comment posted May 16, 2010 @ 3:32 pm
I concur Marlene.
The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to our survival as one nation than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq. No amnesty for the 35-58 million illegal aliens. A border fence from San Diego to Brownsville. Congressional declarations that children born to illegal aliens are not citizens (which is the law) and English is the language of the United States. And a “timeout” on all illegal immigration.
The term Latin-America originated in France during the reign of Napoleon III in the 1860's. French political economist Michel Chevalier, in an effort the solidify the intellectual underpinnings of French overseas ambitions, first proposed a “Pan-Latin” foreign policy in the hope of promoting solidarity between nations whose languages were of Latin origin and that shared the common cultural tradition of Roman Catholicism.
Latin was applied only to the White colonizers. Never meant to or extended to Indians, non-Europeans. Furthermore, cultures lie. Taken was the word “Amerique Latine” as called by the French, translated into Spanish: “America Latina” cut term in half and now “Latino”. How can Latin America translate into Latino? Those who have no culture and identity or language of their own take upon themselves the right to make official anything they say.
No question. What about the Latin Jazz of Mestizos, or Hispanic Whites?
There is no Latin Jazz. What about Latin food? There's none unless it's Italian food. What about Latin dances like the Tango, Waltzes? These are not Latin.
Every year they have the so-called “Latin Grammy's.” It's an award for doing things that are outside the mainstream. There is nothing Latin because they are not Latin, yet they keep using it for all their needs.
Do they have no shame? I think we all know the answer…
Comment posted May 16, 2010 @ 3:42 pm
No, Mr. Loyal to Mexico Congressman, Americans have lost patience with Latinos. Just in case the menace has altered your ability to reason, this should refresh your memory.
PROBLEMS WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:
Anchor Babies: Birthright Citizenship Exploited
Anti-American Attitudes
Anti-Semitic Attitudes
Attacks on Border Patrol and Law Enforcement
Attacks on American Citizens
Attacks on Free Speech
Animal Abuse Increases
Birthing Tours (let's go visit and create an American while we're at it)
Census? Numbers: Negative Impact on Cogressional Representation
Civil Rights: Devalued by comparison to illegal actions
Child Endangerment
Child Molestation
Closed and Overcrowded Hospitals and Emergency Rooms
Cost of Translators
Consulates issuing Matricular Cards (ID Mexico won't even accept)
Day Laborers loitering and creating public hazards
Depreciated Wages for Americans and Legal Immigrants
Deterioration of Common American Culture
Desecration of the American Flag: Foreign Flags used aggressively
Desecration of Nation Border Parks (50+ million tons of trash discarded)
Disrespect for American? Laws
Document Fraud
Drunk Driving injuries and Deaths: Hit and Runs
Ethnic Cleansing and Race Riots
Farm Animals withing City Limits
Food Poisoning
Foreign Influence on US Politics
Fraud of 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) while in jurisdiction of foreign country
Gangs, Graffiti, Drugs, Cartels, Smugglers, Kidnappers, and Violence
Gang Rape and Unreported Crimes
High Birth? Rates and overpopulation
Hispanic/Latino Agenda taking precedence over all
Human Sex Slavery
Identity Theft
Increased Crime
Increased Taxes for Americans
Increased pressures on infrastructure (roads, traffic, water, sewer)
Infectious Diseases
Lost American Jobs
Lost American Sovereignty
Lost Self Governance of American Citizens vs Globalism and Elitism
Loyalty to Mexico/Hispanics/Latinos only
Male Chauvinism: Gender inequality
Not Speaking English (nor caring to), loss of common language, Press? 1 for English
Overcrowded Schools and Negative Impact on American Education
Overcrowded Neighborhoods and Cities
Overcrowded Single Family Homes
Overcrowded Jails and Prisons
Public Sanitation Loss: Trash and Human Waste in Towns
Push For Amnesty
Racist Groups and Race Based Politics
Remittances: Billions of dollars sent out of the US Economy
Rule of Law: Fundamental principles of America sacrificed
Seperatist Movements: Demands for autonomy
Smear Campaigns and Lies: Dirty Politics
Stolen American Taxpayer Resourses: Tuition,? Welfare, Licenses
Taking Limited Seats in Colleges at Taxpayer Expense
Taxpayer Funds going to Special Interest Groups (example) “La Raza”
Terrorism Threats and loss of National Security
Trash and Negative Impact on Environment at Border
Unfair to Legal Immigrants
Unfair Business Competition for law abiding Companies
Unlicensed and Uninsured Motorists
Untaxed Wages
Voter Fraud
And they only come here to feed their families…
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