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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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Sep 8, 2015

I thank all of the men and women that work at Planned Parenthood. I thank them for the incredible service that they offer millions of women.

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Sep 8, 2015

We should not have that fight. The vast majority of women in America and across the world that have access take birth control.

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Sep 8, 2015

Everybody is against abortion, but how do you stop abortions?

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Sep 8, 2015

When you show me that Planned Parenthood actually was selling body parts, then we are going to have a conversation about the future of Planned Parenthood.

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Jul 22, 2015

This man is not an immigrant. Immigrants come here to work hard, sweat, and toil.

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Jul 22, 2015

Her death is a senseless tragedy. I have two daughters of my own, and as a father I cannot even begin to imagine the pain that her parents are going through.

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Jul 22, 2015

This Congress has not done its job, unfairly leaving States and localities to cope with decades-old inaction.

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Jul 22, 2015

I am not one of those people who argue for leniency for criminal immigrants.

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Jul 13, 2015

But it says have you ever been arrested for, charged with, convicted of a crime in any country other than the United States?

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Jul 13, 2015

So in my judgment, we have to reckon with this population one way or another to make them accountable and to account for them.

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Jul 13, 2015

Not all jurisdictions call themselves sanctuary cities. It's a political term, political term of art some people appropriate and others don't.

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Jul 13, 2015

If not one of them crossed the border ever again, there would still be hundreds of thousands, indeed millions of visa overstays.

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Jul 13, 2015

the detainers are a violation and are not enforceable, regardless of what we here believe they are.

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Jul 13, 2015

I share with you the same anguish and pain, as I know the Secretary does and every American, at the death of that woman.

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Jul 13, 2015

That woman should be alive. That woman should be enjoying life in the United States of America.

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May 18, 2015

It is a tale of two cities. The shootings happen in geographical areas.

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May 18, 2015

How can minorities feel less of a double standard during interactions with the law?

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May 18, 2015

Nobody has made that claim here. I don't know why certain of my colleagues here say, well, they are not outraged when a Black person kills a Black person. That is not the issue here.

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May 18, 2015

He does not see the police as a source of protection. He sees it as somebody that he has to learn--the police have to be the adults.

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May 18, 2015

We should have some of those people. I mean, I think, with all due respect to everybody here, we are a little too old to be having this conversation among ourselves about the problems that the police are encountering with young people.

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May 18, 2015

I hope we can have another hearing. I had a conversation with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

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May 18, 2015

That kind of disconnect is going to cause problems--I would think we would want to talk about some fundamental changes.

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Apr 28, 2015

So really what we're having here is a conversation that has to lead to a change in the Constitution of the United States.

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Apr 13, 2015

We do not want immigration policy carried out by our local police department.

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