Gutierrez: No immigration bill ‘terrible for national security’
By Ian Swanson
June 22, 2007
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. Photo Caption: Benjamin J. Myers

Along with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has been the Bush administration’s voice in an immigration debate that has divided Republicans.

Gutierrez, a Cuban immigrant who became chief executive of Kellogg’s, said this week in an interview that he’s not disappointed by Republican opposition to the immigration bill, and that he hasn’t seen evidence that Democrats want to withhold a victory for President Bush.

Gutierrez repeatedly framed the debate as a national security issue, predicting victory in part because of the “inevitabilityâ€