According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
Luis GutierrezAnd 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 GutierrezUncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Luis GutierrezSo where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.
Luis GutierrezI have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there are millions of undocumented workers that work hard, sweat soil every day to put the food we eat on our table. That's not a myth, that's a reality. Why don't we let them come with visas to this country so that then we don't have people using that border.
Luis Gutierrez