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REP. GUTIERREZ: CONGRESS MUST STAY FOR THANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS TO PASS AMNESTY
Breitbart.com ^ | November 12, 2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 11/13/2013 5:13:32 AM PST by ConservativeInPA

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the most prominent supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in the House of Representatives, wants lawmakers in Congress to stay through Thanksgiving and Christmas to create a pathway to citizenship for all of the country's illegal immigrants.

"I think it's unconscionable that the Congress of the United States is going to go away for Thanksgiving with their families, we're going to go away for Christmas with our families, while our broken immigration system continues to destroy tens of thousands of families,” he said on Fusion.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration; invasion; mexico
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Must be a crisis ... Imaginary ... Fabricated ... and we all know what kind of legislation gets past on Christmas eve.
1 posted on 11/13/2013 5:13:32 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

He’s a turkey....go and get stuffed.


2 posted on 11/13/2013 5:14:39 AM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: lightman
Sorry!

Democrats aren't in total control, ala Obamacare, this time!

3 posted on 11/13/2013 5:16:58 AM PST by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

All the really nasty stuff gets passed the week before Christmas when nobody is looking. Not that the MSM looks anymore. These are nothing but dirty rotten POS of Shiite in congress.


4 posted on 11/13/2013 5:17:40 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

There is that word again, “broken”. What part is broken?


5 posted on 11/13/2013 5:18:36 AM PST by cardinal4
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To: ConservativeInPA

We keep hearing you can’t round up 11 million illegals and deport them. I agree it would be very costly. My recommendation would be to pass a bill giving them 90 days to leave on their own and at the end of the 90 days have an open hunting season. I’m sure they’ll leave.


6 posted on 11/13/2013 5:20:02 AM PST by maddog55
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To: cardinal4
There is that word again, “broken”. What part is broken?

The part where deportations are supposed to occur. But that is already law. Hmmm, how do you fix that?

7 posted on 11/13/2013 5:20:56 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - shall not be questioned)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Let’s “table” this goofy bill until the unmemploment rates of U. S. CITIZENS return to the much lower rates of G. W. Bush’s presidency.


8 posted on 11/13/2013 5:22:21 AM PST by pfony1 (Add just 6 GOP Senators and we "bury" Harry)
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To: ConservativeInPA

First, congress and the Fed Government need to assure our current immigration laws are followed. If (and this is a hge if), the most desperate and least educated amongst us is not forced (IE denied Welfare a food stamps) to do the hard work of society (pick crops etc), then a Guest Worker Program should be put in place that does not easily lead to citezenship.

Once and if this system is in place and proved to be working for a number of years, then we can discuss amnesty.....maybe. Thats the way it’s going to work Congressmen Guiterrez.

By the way, I was once very poor. I wored in the fields hoeing weeds and I also worked at canneries sorting tomatoes (I’m white..in case you were wondering). Eventually I worked my way through college etc etc. So, when I’m requesting that desperate people work in the fileds I’m talking about myself, too. This is how how you get a foot hold in society........by working hard.

So, no I don’t feel guilty about asking the least amongst us to do the hard work in the fields. I’m against a Guest Worker Policy on this rationale alone, but most Libreal Americans can’t imagine Americans working in the fields. And, supposedly, the GOP are the snobs.....


9 posted on 11/13/2013 5:24:29 AM PST by Mustangman (The GOP)
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To: ConservativeInPA
He's in a panic because he knows the Obamacare debacle spells the end to illegal immigration reform
10 posted on 11/13/2013 5:24:39 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
The part where deportations are supposed to occur. But that is already law. Hmmm, how do you fix that?

Then there's the part about "securing the border" that was supposed to happen as part of the last "amnesty", and never did.

11 posted on 11/13/2013 5:26:18 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: maddog55

We keep hearing you can’t round up 11 million illegals and deport them. I agree it would be very costly.

Hey, they just wasted $600M on a website. It could have been spent on tickets to their homeland.


12 posted on 11/13/2013 5:28:34 AM PST by FES0844
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To: ConservativeInPA; Perdogg; Tennessee Nana; Liz; TADSLOS; EXCH54FE; GeronL; Travis McGee; ...
RE :”Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), one of the most prominent supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in the House of Representatives, wants lawmakers in Congress to stay through Thanksgiving and Christmas to create a pathway to citizenship for all of the country's illegal immigrants.
“I think it's unconscionable that the Congress of the United States is going to go away for Thanksgiving with their families, we're going to go away for Christmas with our families, while our broken immigration system continues to destroy tens of thousands of families,” he said on Fusion”

That sounds like the prayer for the dead.

Once we hit September a chance of a house amnesty reform bill reduced greatly (little time left) then the shutdown and the Obamacare fiasco took over.

A few House Republicans in heavily Hispanic districts are calling for it under pressure, but thats it.

13 posted on 11/13/2013 5:28:47 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: ConservativeInPA

I want to see Rep Gutierrez addressing an empty House chamber every day over the holidays.


14 posted on 11/13/2013 5:30:21 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: CaptainK
He's in a panic because he knows the Obamacare debacle spells the end to illegal immigration reform ...

The obamacare debacle should spend the end of any Dem legislative efforts till after the midterms. And if we win, after that too.

15 posted on 11/13/2013 5:32:01 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: CaptainK
--He's in a panic because he knows the Obamacare debacle spells the end to illegal immigration reform--

Also, no one believes anything Obama says so his 'great' oratory skills are useless.

16 posted on 11/13/2013 5:33:57 AM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: tacticalogic

Where’s the FENCE!


17 posted on 11/13/2013 5:34:00 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: cardinal4
"There is that word again, “broken”. What part is broken?"

No patrolled fence.

18 posted on 11/13/2013 5:34:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: ConservativeInPA

The move to pass these immigration reforms is nothing more than a crude attempt to permanently stack the voting deck for the Democrat Party. If this measure passes and a permanent majority of people who care nothing about the founding principles of our nation, and who will vote themselves benefits from the Treasury, is emplaced, our Republic will be lost. There will be no option, other than secession, for preserving the freedoms bequeathed to us by our forefathers .


19 posted on 11/13/2013 5:34:39 AM PST by Bill Russell
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To: ConservativeInPA

Distract from the Obamacare disaster by pushing immigration/amnesty.


20 posted on 11/13/2013 5:34:52 AM PST by tbw2
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