Luis Gutierrez to La Raza: Obama Assured Steps to 'Stop the
Deportation of Our People'
by Tony Lee 20 Jul 2014
On Saturday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez
(D-IL) said President Barack Obama's Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was a "down payment" to
the Hispanic community before more grants of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Speaking at the National Council of La Raza conference
in Los Angeles, Gutierrez said that Obama assured him during a White House
meeting with Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last week that he
would be as "generous and broad" as he can to "stop the
deportation of our people each and every day."
"You gave us a down payment
when you freed 600,000 DREAMers from deportation," Gutierrez said.
"Now it is time for the president in the United States... [to] free the Mom
and Dads of the DREAMers. And to go further. Be broad and expansive and
generous."
Gutierrez said giving amnesty to
100,000 illegal immigrants was "not expansive" enough, and he called
on Obama to give amnesty to "millions of our undocumented," including
the parents of illegal immigrant children.
As Gutierrez noted, nearly 600,000
DREAMers who met various conditions got temporary work permits and amnesty
under DACA, which Obama enacted via executive fiat in 2012. Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-TX) has said no future grants of temporary amnesty should be awarded as a
condition for any border bill. There have been nearly 60,000 illegal immigrant
children who have unlawfully entered the country since October of last year.
And the number of illegal immigrant children from Central
America spiked after Obama enacted DACA even though murder rates
in Central American nations declined during the period.
Gutierrez said there are 5 million
children in the country who are worried that one of their parents will be
deported. He said if these illegal immigrant parents are working and are part
of their communities, then they should be allowed to stay. He called for visas
to be issued to illegal immigrants in the United States and again pressed
Obama to "expand" his grants of amnesty.
After House Speaker John Boehner
(R-OH) informed Obama that Congress would not vote on amnesty legislation,
Obama said he would executive actions to change as many of the country's
immigration laws as he can. When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was
ousted for his support for amnesty legislation in a June primary, Republicans
in Congress decided not to move forward on amnesty legislation they were ready
to push. Gutierrez thanked Reps. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
for working with him to try to get comprehensive amnesty legislation done.
National Council of La Raza
Pritzker
Family Foundation was a funder for the National
Council of La Raza.
Note: J.B. Pritzker is
the president of the Pritzker Family
Foundation, Donald Pritzker’s
son, and a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago.
Donald Pritzker was
J.B. Pritzker & Penny S. Pritzker’s father.
Penny S. Pritzker
is Donald
Pritzker’s daughter, a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago, the
secretary at the U.S. Department of
Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, was the national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, the host for the Barack
Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team.
Michelle
Obama is Craig M. Robinson’s sister,
and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and Melody C. Barnes is his
golf partner.
Melody
C. Barnes is Barack Obama’s golf
partner, the director at the Domestic
Policy Council for the Barack Obama
administration, and the EVP for the Center
for American Progress.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Economic Policy Institute, and Amnesty
International.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Economic Policy Institute, and Amnesty
International.
Raul
Yzaguirre was a director at the Economic
Policy Institute, and the president & CEO for the National Council of La Raza.
Pritzker
Family Foundation was a funder for the National
Council of La Raza.
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