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 GutierrezIt 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 GutierrezThe Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.
Luis GutierrezSo given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
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 will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.
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