Posted on 12/03/2014 3:28:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I was just reading Luis’ Wikipedia bio and it says he was born in Chicago of Puerto Rican parents but didn’t learn to speak Spanish until high school when his family moved back to Puerto Rico. He could speak English without that accent if he wanted to.
He is for Puerto Rican independence too.
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Also according to Wikipedia Luis began perfecting his Puerto Rican accent around 2010.
More to impress his Hispanic audience I suppose.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Mex.)
Thanks for your two posts. I simply looked at Wikipedia to see where he was born and didn’t look at the rest of it. Explains that... I wonder if his parents were legal immigrants. It was the Puerto Ricans who flooded the U. S. illegally that had the U.S. concerned for so long. Well, some of us anyway!
Puerto Ricans have been US citizens since 1900 but have all the benefits of citizenship without paying US taxes. Now many immigrants are flooding Puerto Rico and getting drivers licenses. The danger I see is those folks using that avenue to enter the mainland.
There is a push for independence by some, like Luis Gutierrez but also a push for full statehood by others. I think the reason Puerto Rico is not a state is the income tax issue.
But bottom line Luis Gutierrez is not an immigrant and his accent is phony and designed to trick certain people for the sake of power in immigrant circles. Probably has ambitions higher than Congress if he can get enough Hispanic folks in the country and in his corner.
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