Posted on 07/08/2014 7:14:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
CHICAGO (CBS) Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded President Barack Obama take immediate action that would prevent those families and others from being torn apart.
WBBM Newsradios Dave Berner reports families stepped to the microphone with tears in their eyes as they Agustin Corona, who is facing deportation, said he has children who were born in the U.S., and hes had a job since the mid-90s.
I would like to stay here. This is Chicago. Im part of Chicago, he said.
Gutierrez said Obama can use his executive powers to halt deportations, and he wants the president to step up.
There are broad, wide, expansive measures that the President of the United States can take to stop the deportations, he said. Issue the executive orders immediately. There are too many families that have no time to wait.
The congressman said the president knows what its like to have his citizenship questioned, and he knows its time to act.
Mr. President, there are over 4.5 million American citizen children who everyday wake up to the possible nightmare of losing their mom and their dad. That has to come to an end, he said.
Gutierrez said, since the Republican-controlled House for more than a year has been blocking a bipartisan immigration reform plan approved by the Senate, the president should act to ease the pain of millions facing deportation. Be as broad and wide and as expensive and generous as the Republicans are mean-spirited, Gutierrez said.
“Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded President Barack Obama take immediate action that would prevent those families and others from being torn apart. “
No problem, They can all leave.
Those “families” threw their kids illegally across the border. They can unite back home in Mexico.
BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Must be full employment in Chicago, must not have anyone on foodstamps or welfare. Otherwise why would they be trying to let illegals stay in the US?
Fine. Send them to that craphole that is Chicago. They won’t last long.
What’s wrong with this phrase?
Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded ...
Suprisingly I support halting deportations. We do it by halting them entering our nation in the first place.
If it’s all out war these people want, then the government should give it to them.
This S has to stop.
Has anyone checked the politics of those being deported, since so many aren’t being sent back?
A COMPLETELY LAWLESS PRESIDENT - WHO HAS USURPED POWER FROM CONGRESS - AND CONGRESSCRITTERS STAND UP AND CHEER. I fell like I am living down the rabbit hole.
Deport illegals, period.
If legals have illegal parents here they can go back with their parents to their home country.
Gutierrez is House “Gang of Eight” Amnesty scum
That makes perfect sense...let them all stay here.....that would stop the flow of illegals...look how Obama's deferred amnesty helped. .
Using the same logic maybe the federal government should stop prosecuting all gun possession laws to stop the flow of guns, try that on the next liberal you talk to.,
Chuck Schumer's Hispanic Mini-me is just acting as Obama's beard and continuing the coverup of the fact that under Obama deportations are vanishing rapidly - http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html#axzz2zA2BkKbZ&page=1
Mr. President, there are over 4.5 million American citizen children who everyday wake up to the possible nightmare of losing their mom and their dad. That has to come to an end, he said.
Gutierrez said, since the Republican-controlled House for more than a year has been blocking a bipartisan immigration reform plan approved by the Senate, the president should act to ease the pain of millions facing deportation.
Be as broad and wide and as expensive and generous as the Republicans are mean-spirited, Gutierrez said.
What deportations?
deport Luis Guiterrez
“We say to the president of the U.S., you said last week that we were right, that the negotiations have failed. Issue the executive orders immediately,” said Congressman Gutierrez.
Josefa Gonzalez is the partner of Wilson Gomez-Pu, who has spent ten months in the McHenry Detention Center because he is undocumented. He is the breadwinner of the family, and Gonzalez says bills are piling up. She has even stopped taking diabetes medicine so she can to feed her family.
“My children ask for their father and I do not have words to explain when he will return...The first days after he was detained by Immigration, my child would ask me at night, ‘When will my father come home?’ And I did not have an answer. The worries for my children are weighing heavy on me,” said Gonzalez, through translator Carlos Rosa.
Agustin Corona has been in this country for 20 years and has two daughters who are U.S. citizens. This year, he bought a home and is now scheduled to be deported.
“On July 31, I will present myself to immigration and ask them to stop my deportation,” said Corona.
“President Obama, you promised us you are going to take action at the end of the summer. Go big. Do as much as you can to help and protect these families from deportation,” said Carlos Rosa, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “President Obama has deported 2 million people, more than any other president in the history of the United States. That means that we as a community of immigrants are suffering. Every single day 1,100 people are deported.”
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