Posted on 02/19/2017 9:25:06 PM PST by blueyon
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) issued a statement in response to being excluded from a meeting in the U.S. Capitol with Acting Director Thomas Homan of ICE. Rep. Gutiérrez was asked to leave the meeting by staffers for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) at the request of Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Speaker Ryan. Several other Members were excluded from the meeting with the ICE official, including Reps. Nanette Barragán (D-CA), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Lou Correa (D-CA), Ruben Kihuen (D-NV), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Norma Torres (D-CA), and Juan Vargas (D-CA).
Rep. Gutiérrez was among the Members who requested the meeting with the Acting ICE Director in a letter on February 11 (http://bit.ly/2lYxChf). A meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other Democrats in the House was cancelled at the last minute by ICE. It was rescheduled to today and turned into a Republican-led meeting run by Chairman Goodlatte and was apparently made invitation-only. Members were told by Chairman Goodltte at the meeting that any further meetings with ICE officials would have to be cleared by the Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman.
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Shouldn’t he be deported himself?
How many of those rats also boycotted the inauguration?
What a bunch of bullcrap, pretending the meeting with Ryan was really supposed to be with all these Hispanics. They obviously crashed the meeting.
Probably a good idea to toss em out.
Possibly a setup? Let the Dems go plug in their own lines to ICE, and come up with the same information they were barred from.
Luis V. Gutiérrez should move to Mexico. Maybe he can be president down there.
Luis the Snowflake...
He was probably being disruptive, obnoxious, and argumentative. You can’t get anything accomplished with that kind of atmosphere.
It’s always good to keep La Raza out of U.S. Government meetings.
Seems that more and more Republicans are starting to grow a spine.
Maybe they are growing some tiny ones
Luis is more like yellow snow..
So that would make him Luis the Yellow... Snowflake? I like it.
His first loyalty is to Mexico. Screw him. Anyway, has everyone forgotten the GOP being locked out of the room during the Obamcare bill creating?
GOOD! The ‘RATS should be given as much information and have as much input allowed to immigration issues as the ‘RATS gave to Republicans prior to the enactment of Obamacare -— give them ZERO INPUT AND ZERO INFORMATION.
has everyone forgotten the GOP being locked out of the room during the Obamcare bill creating?
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It was the first thing I thought of.
The party in the majority gets to set meetings. Republicans for too long have allowed minority Democrats to set the agenda.
The Republican Congress is finally using their authority as the majority.
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