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Luis Gutiérrez

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Luis Gutiérrez is a former U.S. Representative from Illinois, serving from 1993 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his advocacy on immigration reform and social justice issues. Gutiérrez played a significant role in the fight for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and was a vocal critic of policies that he viewed as detrimental to immigrant communities. Throughout his tenure, he served on various committees, including the House Committee on Financial Services.

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Jul 24, 2016

In her heart, Hillary Clinton's dream for America is one where immigrants are allowed to come out of the shadows, get right with the law, pay their taxes and not feel fear that their families are going to be ripped apart.

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Jul 24, 2016

But, listen, no matter what your family tree looks like, a fair immigration system is better for America. No matter what others say, it is simply a fantasy that we're going to round up and deport 11 million people. It's a sick, hateful…

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Jul 24, 2016

I will raise my voice against the bigots who think a judge born in Indiana can't do his job because his parents were born in Mexico.

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Jul 11, 2016

the security of the American people and their safety in their schools and in their place of play and on their streets is not important.

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Jul 11, 2016

Come and visit with us in Chicago. Laquan McDonald deserves that. The people--the Chicago police deserve that.

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Feb 3, 2016

It does not resolve the problem, because even if we built the best, greatest wall between Mexico and the United States, they would still be hundreds of thousands of people coming to the United States and staying illegally in the United…

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Dec 8, 2015

Fifteen, 20 percent of the 11 million undocumented, with no action of the Congress of the United States, through the sponsorship of an American citizen or permanent resident that is eligible to sponsor them, could get their undocumented…

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Dec 8, 2015

the feeling under attack, I think even the majority would probably say, yep, that one, they're under attack.

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Dec 8, 2015

there is an uptick in citizenship applications when three things happen: A, you guys increase the price, so people want to get in before there's an increase in price.

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Nov 18, 2015

But in light of the attacks on our ally friends last Friday, I urge my colleagues to keep a cool head and not to react exactly the way ISIS and other terrorists hope we do, with fear, with chaos, and with lashing out.

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Nov 18, 2015

We've heard these arguments time and time again in America, and America has always responded to them correctly by welcoming those to our Nation regardless of the faith that they hold.

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Nov 18, 2015

That tells ISIS and the world that we're on the right side of history and they're on the wrong side of history.

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Nov 18, 2015

And you know what the best tradition of America is, when people have stood up against fearmongerers who traffic in hatred and bigotry and prejudice.

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Nov 18, 2015

Look, we used fear during World War II. Boy, did we regret it, the internment camps of the Japanese, a stain and a blemish on America.

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Nov 18, 2015

Every community of people that have come here has strengthened this Nation.

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Nov 16, 2015

In my hometown of Chicago, there are 40, 50 shootings any given weekend. That is a whole classroom of children, and it's unacceptable.

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Nov 16, 2015

We need more Federal action, I think, because whatever we do in Chicago... 60 percent of the guns are coming from Wisconsin, Indiana, and Mississippi.

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Nov 5, 2015

His statements should disqualify him from being able to take the stage in any entertainment venue and speak to the American people as if what he said was no big deal.

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Oct 21, 2015

So as I look at the challenge of gun violence in the city of Chicago and I see that there are--I mean, if we took a map of the city of Chicago and we put, reluctantly, little stars where people had been murdered due to gun violence, do you…

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Oct 21, 2015

the majority in the Congress of the United States that's really unwilling to take up the challenge that guns and firearms are

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Oct 7, 2015

They can't change the law. They can't undercut the Constitution of the United States and the Supreme Court.

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Oct 7, 2015

They object to the fact that they offer abortions because that's their point of view.

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Oct 7, 2015

It's legal in the United States of America to have an abortion. It's the law of the land.

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Oct 7, 2015

You guys have opened one big Pandora's box here because, on repeated occasions here today, the majority and their witnesses have questioned the integrity of Members of the minority panel.

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Sep 28, 2015

Three principal items. This year our media strategy is very focused on ethnic media dealing with the Hispanic, Portuguese, and Asian communities and pockets throughout the state that are underinsured.

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