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" According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. "
Luis Gutierrez
Right
Data
Rights
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" It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. "
Luis Gutierrez
Meaning
Real
America
" While jobs, education, and healthcare rank among the top issues for Latino voters, immigration is a threshold issue. "
Luis Gutierrez
Education
Top
Immigration
" I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them. "
Luis Gutierrez
Legal
Supreme Court
Power
" Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform. "
Luis Gutierrez
Same
Me
Immigration
" The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides. "
Luis Gutierrez
Passion
Difficult
Immigration
" We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked. "
Luis Gutierrez
Process
Immigrants
Justice
" And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. "
Luis Gutierrez
Me
Forget
Security
" Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that. "
Luis Gutierrez
Will
Nobody
Never
" Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected. "
Luis Gutierrez
American
Who
Individual
" BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big. "
Luis Gutierrez
Too
Because
Should
" On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to. "
Luis Gutierrez
Us
Tuesday
House
" We need legal immigration as an alternative to illegal immigration and a way of getting the millions of unauthorized immigrants already here to get legal and get in compliance with our laws. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Immigrants
Legal
" The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Unit
Any
" Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security is a key part of any strategy. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigration
Strategy
Security
" Obama the President needs to stand up for what Obama the candidate and what Obama the Senator and what Obama the Chicago community organizer stood for and lead the Congress towards reform. "
Luis Gutierrez
Community
Stand
Stand Up
" The pro-life, pro-family Republicans are now pro-neonatal detention and deportation. It isn't enough to drive out the people not born here; now they want to drive out the ones that were. "
Luis Gutierrez
Enough
Drive
Born
" Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests. "
Luis Gutierrez
Defense
Street
Financial
" I remember clearly the afternoon I sat down with Obama. In December 2006, he was preparing for a family trip, and the decision to run weighed heavily on his mind. As a progressive member of Congress from Illinois, I was excited and energized by the prospect of my senator, and my friend, running for president. "
Luis Gutierrez
Run
Decision
Family
" Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally. "
Luis Gutierrez
Policy
Immigration
Immigration Policy
" The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain. "
Luis Gutierrez
Immigrants
Say
Years
" If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity. "
Luis Gutierrez
Nothing
Someone
Humanity
" I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA. "
Luis Gutierrez
Twice
White
White House
" In the immigration debate, some things are constant. They never change. One is that opponents of immigration reform will use it as a wedge issue and will blame everything from unemployment to rising health care costs on immigrants. "
Luis Gutierrez
Debate
Care
Change
" We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration. "
Luis Gutierrez
Government
American
Need
" If you are brown, black, Asian, or anything other than an English-speaking, highly-trained technician, the Republican Party doesn't want you here. "
Luis Gutierrez
Republican
Black
You
" And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them. "
Luis Gutierrez
Sweat
Life
Help
" If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically? "
Luis Gutierrez
Bad
Support
America
" We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. "
Luis Gutierrez
Help
People
Process
" The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation. "
Luis Gutierrez
Own
Children
Hispanic
" The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings. "
Luis Gutierrez
Blame
Numbers
Immigrant