Posted on 12/03/2014 3:28:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Immigration reform champion Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday urged undocumented immigrants to take quick advantage of President Obama’s executive actions giving them temporary legal status.
Speaking in both English and Spanish, he urged those eligible for the new program to also get their paperwork ready for legal status.
“When that door opens, we should have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, with their documents, ready to submit them,” Gutiérrez said at a Capitol Hill press conference. “While Republicans are complaining and bellyaching, we’re going to act.”
Gutiérrez appeared with five other Democrats who sit on the House Judiciary Committee, which will consider on Tuesday the legality of Obama’s actions.
The Chicago-area lawmaker slammed Republicans for trying to derail Obama’s plans for immigration reform without presenting other options.
“If you do not like what the president of the United States has done, then it is your responsibility to offer us an alternative other than to demonize and criminalize our immigrant community,” Gutiérrez said to a packed room of immigration activists and the children of undocumented immigrants protected by the DREAM Act, known as DREAMers.
“What unites Republicans is being against anything Barack Obama proposes,” he said, accusing the GOP of using the issue of immigration against Democrats “in order to regain the Senate and in order to regain more House Seats.”
Gutiérrez said he had worked hard with Republican leadership to pass immigration reform, but was repeatedly told, “Just be patient Luis, we’re almost there.” He said Democrats were no longer willing to wait.
The two GOP-led hearings on Tuesday are the first since Obama announced his immigration plans.
Republicans have blasted Obama for the decision, arguing he is going well beyond his constitutional authority with actions that could give legal status to up to 5 million immigrants.
“His decision to take unilateral action on immigration — action he himself said exceeded his authority — makes it harder for the American people and their elected representatives to trust his word on any issue,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday.
Democrats appearing with Gutiérrez argued Obama acted within the law.
“There’s no serious question at all that the president has the authority to do what he did,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a longtime immigration lawyer, said in defending Obama’s plan.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) blamed Boehner and Republicans for failing to bring an immigration bill to the floor.
“The ball is in the Republicans’ hands,” he said. “The ball's in [Boehner’s] hands and he doesn’t know what to do with the ball.”
Didn’t this quiterrez traitor ever take an oath to defend the Constitution? What a shameless, anti-American freak.
Arrest and deport. They "criminalized" themselves by breaking the law.
Ah , Illegals would you trust these guys ,LOL
This “EA” needs a SCOTUS injunction, IMMEDIATELY!
Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty.
“Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who followed the rules and came here legally,” Cruz said, per Talking Points Memo’s Daniel Strauss. “Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the 92 MILLION Americans who aren’t working here right now. Amnesty is fundamentally unfair to the African American community that’s facing historic unemployment.”
After destroying the best health care system in the world, Obama is determined to grant wide amnesty to foreigners living illegally in U.S. If Obama wants to make the U.S. into another banana republic, it seems he is well underway to reaching his goal.
The Republicans must make it perfectly clear that Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America. There are 92 million of able Americans out of the work force because they cannot find employment and Obama wants to legalize and give work permits to over 11 million illegal aliens allowing them to bring here the rest of their families. In other words, another 25 or 30 million that either will compete with Americans and legal immigrants searching for scarce jobs or are going to be added to welfare, bankrupting Medicaid and the food stamp system as well as ruining even more the quality of the public schools with the massive infuse of hundreds of thousands of children without speaking English to already overburdened schools systems.
Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html
Obama Was Against Illegal Immigration Before He Was For it
by Selwyn Duke
17 November 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/19547-obama-was-against-illegal-immigration-before-he-was-for-it?tmpl=component&print=1
“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers threatens to depress further the wages of blue- collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.” (The opinion of the anti-illegal-alien crusader Barack HusseiObama from his 2006 autobiography The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream)
Obama had super majority in both cameras during the first two years of his presidency, but he didn’t give the amnesty during his first 100 days as he promised to those living illegally in the country… Furthermore, as senator, Obama opposed George W Bush when the republicans tried to give a legal status to those living illegally in U.S.
Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html
> Didn’t this quiterrez traitor ever take an oath to defend the Constitution? What a shameless, anti-American freak.
I don’t think the current shift serves the interests of the people who elected and put them into power..they are rather of the traitor / betrayer infiltrator variety.
On first pull down, select "Whatever"
“”Didn’t this quiterrez traitor ever take an oath to defend the Constitution””
He was born in Chicago with that accent? I don’t believe it! He speaks no differently than Jose’ who just got across the border.
> Didn’t this quiterrez traitor ever take an oath to defend the Constitution? What a shameless, anti-American freak.
I don’t think the current shift serves the interests of the people who elected and put them into power..they are rather of the traitor / betrayer infiltrator variety.
We need to start a campaign and get it to go viral.
Something along the lines that:
1. Executive Orders can be overturned by any President at any time.
2. The EO that Obama signed will be overturned by the next President.
3. Thanks to Obama’s EO, and the illegal aliens who willingly gave the USG their information, the USG will now have a comprehensive list of those people who are in the country illegally.
/johnny
““If you do not like what the president of the United States has done, then it is your responsibility to offer us an alternative other than to demonize and criminalize our immigrant community,” Gutiérrez said”
Fine. Our alternative is ENFORCE THE LAW AGAINST THESE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS AND DEPORT THEM!!!!
He doesn't get to make those rules for other people. He may want to, since it's a liberal trait, but he doesn't get to.
/johnny
As a tax-paying American Citizen I have to ask “Who the f*ck is representing ME!?”
Just what country is this idiot representing. Call his office and ask why he supports illegals over Americans. His staff can’t answer.
Same country as the Mittster! (Unfortunately)
...is drooling. He sees himself as the speaker for the S.O.B.(south of the border) crowd. He is in for a rude surprise. It will be their party, Luis. (tagline)
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