Thread: Luis Gutierrez: Jeb Bush Best GOP ’16 Contender on Amnesty

by Breitbart News
21 Apr 2015

On Tuesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is the GOP 2016 contender who has the best positions on amnesty for illegal immigrants.
At the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Gutierrez was asked which GOP presidential candidate he “would be able to work with best” on immigration issues.
“We have to stay with the Bush family,” Gutierrez responded while praising George W. Bush for trying twice to get comprehensive amnesty legislation last decade.
Jeb Bush, who has said that illegal immigration is an “act of love,” said last week in New Hampshire that he thought awarding legal status to illegal immigrants is a “rational” and “thoughtful” way of dealing with the issue.
Gutierrez also praised Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as one of “many good, strong voices in the Republican Party… for immigration reform.”
“You all remember that Paul Ryan came to Chicago with me… and he stood with me at the podium and said he is for comprehensive immigration with a pathway to citizenship… a mere six months after losing his bid for the vice presidency of the United States,” Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez added, though, that since the “vast majority” of House Republican caucus is not for immigration reform, there is only so much political capital Representatives like Ryan are willing to spend on amnesty issues.
Though, as Breitbart News has emphasized, “the civil rights movement of the 1960s was about ensuring that black Americans received all of the rights they were due as citizens of the United States while today’s pro-amnesty movement is about demanding full rights for non-citizens who entered the country illegally,” Gutierrez again compared the amnesty movement to the civil rights movement.
He said leaders in the civil rights movement did not worry about whether marching on Selma, for instance, would be bad for the midterm elections. Gutierrez declared that the “immigration movement has to stand alone and separate from the Democratic and the Republican Party” in order to win and thrive.
Perhaps Gutierrez was taking a veiled shot at David Axelrod, who moderated the conversation and is the director of the Institute for Politics.
Last year, after Axelrod suggested that his former boss, President Barack Obama, should “shelve” his executive amnesty, Gutierrez blistered Axelrod on the House floor.
“David Axelrod, safe in the confines of the University of Chicago, has no sense of urgency because none of his family members or neighbors are facing deportation,” Gutierrez said last year while referencing “unhelpful Democrats,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “But it is a little different on my side of Chicago.”
Gutierrez predicted that Obama’s executive orders “are going to be key in the debate of the presidency of the united states… do you support it? Will you expand it? Will you protect it?”
He said how candidates “speak to those executive orders…. is going to be fundamental” in getting the Latino vote.
Though the New York Times and the Washington Post have published studies showing that Republicans do indeed have a path to the White House in 2016 and beyond without getting massive increases in the Latino vote, Gutierrez argued that he did not think Republicans can win the White House in 2016 “if they do not change” on immigration and amnesty.

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On Tuesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is the GOP 2016 contender who has the best positions on amnesty for illegal immigrants.

At the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Gutierrez was asked which GOP presidential candidate he “would be able to work with best” on immigration issues.

“We have to stay with the Bush family,” Gutierrez responded while praising George W. Bush for trying twice to get comprehensive amnesty legislation last decade.

Jeb Bush, who has said that illegal immigration is an “act of love,” said last week in New Hampshire that he thought awarding legal status to illegal immigrants is a “rational” and “thoughtful” way of dealing with the issue.

Gutierrez also praised Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as one of “many good, strong voices in the Republican Party… for immigration reform.”
“You all remember that Paul Ryan came to Chicago with me… and he stood with me at the podium and said he is for comprehensive immigration with a pathway to citizenship… a mere six months after losing his bid for the vice presidency of the United States,” Gutierrez said.

Nothing like the "Kiss of Death" from Luis for Jeb! Yes, we've had quite enough damage from the Bush Family.

And perhaps we need a new House Budget Committee Chairman, huh? Cuz we all know you can't balance the budget with poverty and unemployment pouring over the borders, as a "growth" strategy, let alone legalizing it so they can all sign up for even more benefits we can't afford and runs up the national debt.

Though the New York Times and the Washington Post have published studies showing that Republicans do indeed have a path to the White House in 2016 and beyond without getting massive increases in the Latino vote, Gutierrez argued that he did not think Republicans can win the White House in 2016 “if they do not change” on immigration and amnesty.

Every candidate can win without winning the "Latino vote", whatever that is or they think it is. Candidates for office need votes from US citizens. Latino citizens vote the same way most Americans vote and do so for the same reasons, and they want to stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration for the same reasons most Americans want to stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration. What no candidate can do however is lose the "women vote", since we're the largest voting bloc and represent the majority of the electorate.

The New Blue Vote:

http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_fac...genderdiff.pdf

The Blue Line in the graphs are Female Voters in the US since 1980 and 1964:

1. More women voters than men
2. More women vote than men

You lose the "women vote", you lose the White House.

Mitt Romney didn't lose the election because of "self-deportation" or even his "47%" comments. Mitt Romney lost the election because he lost the "women vote".

I hope that there are millions like me. If I did not know anything about Jeb other than Gutierrez endorsed him. I could not support Jeb or vote for him.

Ha, ha, ha. Jeb is probably seeing red after hearing of Gutierrez' favorable endorsement. Although, I suppose it's possible he sees this as a good thing in his quest to gain Hispanic support.

News flash to Jeb Bush: Are you so stupid that you fail to realize you'll lose more votes than gain when a Democrat like Gutierrez come out in support of your campaign! Gaining a small amount of Hispanic support while losing a large portion of your base does not work mathematically. If you would have done your homework you would know that only 7.0% of voting public during the 2010 presidential race was actually Hispanic. I think the number was around 8.4% during the 2012 elections.