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Gutierrez Urges Obama To Take Immediate Action To Halt Deportations
cbslocal.com ^ | July 8, 2014

Posted on 07/08/2014 7:14:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

CHICAGO (CBS) – Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded President Barack Obama take “immediate” action that would prevent those families and others from being torn apart.

WBBM Newsradio’s Dave Berner reports families stepped to the microphone with tears in their eyes as they Agustin Corona, who is facing deportation, said he has children who were born in the U.S., and he’s had a job since the mid-90s.

“I would like to stay here. This is Chicago. I’m part of Chicago,” he said.

Gutierrez said Obama can use his executive powers to halt deportations, and he wants the president to step up.

“There are broad, wide, expansive measures that the President of the United States can take to stop the deportations,” he said. “Issue the executive orders immediately. There are too many families that have no time to wait.”

The congressman said the president knows what it’s like to have his citizenship questioned, and he knows it’s time to act.

“Mr. President, there are over 4.5 million American citizen children who everyday wake up to the possible nightmare of losing their mom and their dad. That has to come to an end,” he said.

Gutierrez said, since the Republican-controlled House for more than a year has been blocking a bipartisan immigration reform plan approved by the Senate, the president should act to ease the pain of millions facing deportation. “Be as broad and wide and as expensive and generous as the Republicans are mean-spirited,” Gutierrez said.


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1 posted on 07/08/2014 7:14:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded President Barack Obama take “immediate” action that would prevent those families and others from being torn apart. “

No problem, They can all leave.


2 posted on 07/08/2014 7:18:49 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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Those “families” threw their kids illegally across the border. They can unite back home in Mexico.


3 posted on 07/08/2014 7:19:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: headstamp 2

BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 07/08/2014 7:19:46 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Must be full employment in Chicago, must not have anyone on foodstamps or welfare. Otherwise why would they be trying to let illegals stay in the US?


5 posted on 07/08/2014 7:19:59 PM PDT by McGavin999
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6 posted on 07/08/2014 7:20:54 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Fine. Send them to that craphole that is Chicago. They won’t last long.


7 posted on 07/08/2014 7:21:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please Support Free Republic.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

What’s wrong with this phrase?

Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded………………...


8 posted on 07/08/2014 7:21:35 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Open Borders, pro-terrorist, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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Suprisingly I support halting deportations. We do it by halting them entering our nation in the first place.

If it’s all out war these people want, then the government should give it to them.

This S has to stop.


9 posted on 07/08/2014 7:22:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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Has anyone checked the politics of those being deported, since so many aren’t being sent back?


10 posted on 07/08/2014 7:23:15 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...get off your cowardly a$ses and be A PATRIOT now!)
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A COMPLETELY LAWLESS PRESIDENT - WHO HAS USURPED POWER FROM CONGRESS - AND CONGRESSCRITTERS STAND UP AND CHEER. I fell like I am living down the rabbit hole.


11 posted on 07/08/2014 7:23:29 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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Deport illegals, period.

If legals have illegal parents here they can go back with their parents to their home country.


12 posted on 07/08/2014 7:23:41 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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Gutierrez is House “Gang of Eight” Amnesty scum


13 posted on 07/08/2014 7:26:25 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; Tennessee Nana; Liz; TADSLOS; EXCH54FE; GeronL; Travis McGee; jimbo123; ...
RE:”Joined by several families facing deportation, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) on Tuesday demanded President Barack Obama take “immediate” action that would prevent those families and others from being torn apart.”

That makes perfect sense...let them all stay here.....that would stop the flow of illegals...look how Obama's deferred amnesty helped. .

Using the same logic maybe the federal government should stop prosecuting all gun possession laws to stop the flow of guns, try that on the next liberal you talk to.,

14 posted on 07/08/2014 7:28:11 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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Chuck Schumer's Hispanic Mini-me is just acting as Obama's beard and continuing the coverup of the fact that under Obama deportations are vanishing rapidly - http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html#axzz2zA2BkKbZ&page=1

15 posted on 07/08/2014 7:29:15 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Mr. President, there are over 4.5 million American citizen children who everyday wake up to the possible nightmare of losing their mom and their dad. That has to come to an end,” he said.

Gutierrez said, since the Republican-controlled House for more than a year has been blocking a bipartisan immigration reform plan approved by the Senate, the president should act to ease the pain of millions facing deportation.

“Be as broad and wide and as expensive and generous as the Republicans are mean-spirited,” Gutierrez said.

16 posted on 07/08/2014 7:29:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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Gutierrez Urges Obama To Take Immediate Action To Halt Deportations

What deportations?

17 posted on 07/08/2014 7:31:11 PM PDT by doc1019
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This little weasel is fifth column of treason in America. It's clear he thinks more of a constituency in Mexico than America. He should move to Mexico.
18 posted on 07/08/2014 7:31:32 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: Tailgunner Joe

deport Luis Guiterrez


19 posted on 07/08/2014 7:31:47 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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“We say to the president of the U.S., you said last week that we were right, that the negotiations have failed. Issue the executive orders immediately,” said Congressman Gutierrez.

Josefa Gonzalez is the partner of Wilson Gomez-Pu, who has spent ten months in the McHenry Detention Center because he is undocumented. He is the breadwinner of the family, and Gonzalez says bills are piling up. She has even stopped taking diabetes medicine so she can to feed her family.

“My children ask for their father and I do not have words to explain when he will return...The first days after he was detained by Immigration, my child would ask me at night, ‘When will my father come home?’ And I did not have an answer. The worries for my children are weighing heavy on me,” said Gonzalez, through translator Carlos Rosa.

Agustin Corona has been in this country for 20 years and has two daughters who are U.S. citizens. This year, he bought a home and is now scheduled to be deported.

“On July 31, I will present myself to immigration and ask them to stop my deportation,” said Corona.

“President Obama, you promised us you are going to take action at the end of the summer. Go big. Do as much as you can to help and protect these families from deportation,” said Carlos Rosa, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “President Obama has deported 2 million people, more than any other president in the history of the United States. That means that we as a community of immigrants are suffering. Every single day 1,100 people are deported.”


20 posted on 07/08/2014 7:34:34 PM PDT by kcvl
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