Sep 27, 2013
Reps. Luis Gutierrez & Jared Polis on Immigration Reform State of Play On today’s “Office Hours” press call, two longtime Congressional champions of immigration reform – Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) – expressed optimism about the prospects for reform this year and discussed the strategies...
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The following is a press release from the Campaign for Citizenship of PICO National Network: Leading Up to National Day of Action, Groups Detail the Human Cost of Inaction by Congress and Call on the House to Enact Real Reform that Keeps Families Together and Ends Senseless Deportations Today,...
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Greg Sargent at the Washington Post’s Plum Line broke the story this morning that one bipartisan attempt to craft comprehensive immigration reform legislation in the House is dead. Here are excerpts from Sargent’s post: “It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Dem...
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Aug 30, 2013
The most influential House Member on immigration is not the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) or the Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), but Democrat Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). It is impossible to imagine how immigration reform can pass the House without the backing of...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has long been an outspoken champion for immigrant rights and immigration reform. Now, Washington Post profile by Ed O’Keefe explains something we’ve known for awhile: Gutierrez is also a Spanish language TV star. With the immigration debate underway in Congress, the long-time champion has been getting recent...
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Over the weekend, Dylan Matthews at the Washington Post had a long interview with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), a longtime champion of immigration reform, to talk about how immigration reform will get through Speaker John Boehner and the House GOP. You can read the full interview here—it’s long, but...
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The following is a press release from the Alliance for Citizenship: On a call with press today, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) joined immigration reform advocates to discuss this week’s meetings and the path forward for immigration reform in the House of Representatives. “Everyone knows the votes are there...
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Jun 28, 2013
Immigration reform advocates won a big victory yesterday, when the Senate passed the Gang of 8 immigration bill in a 68-32 vote. Check out the list of the great things we won in the bill here. But we need to be clear: immigration reform has NOT yet passed. The Senate bill...
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Below are remarks from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who delivered a speech on the House floor about today’s markup of the SAFE Act in the House Judiciary Committee: Remarks on Immigration, U.S. Congress, June 18, 2013 Mr. Speaker — Later today, the Judiciary Committee will mark-up the first immigration-reform...
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By Yoli Navas: Every day, families are being torn apart by the deportation of undocumented parents of US-citizen children. Human Impact Partners estimates that in the past year anywhere between 60,000 and 150,000 children have been separated from either one parent or both by the nation’s “heartless detain-and-deport immigration...
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