Thread: Rep. Gutierrez arrested outside the White House

Rep. Gutierrez arrested outside the White House while protesting immigration policy !!!

By David Nakamura


For the second time in as many years, Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez was arrested Tuesday for demonstrating outside the White House against President Obama’s record on immigration reform, his spokesman said.

Gutierrez (D-Ill.) had been attending a rally of more than 1,000 Latino civil rights activists in Lafayette Park across from the White House. He was among a dozen protestors who broke off from the crowd and sat down next to the White House’s perimeter security fence, said Douglas Rivlin, Gutierrez’s spokesman.

U.S. Park Police asked the group to leave, but the protesters refused, and all 12 in the group were arrested, Rivlin said.

In a statement released by his office after the arrest, Gutierrez said: “The President says Republicans are blocking immigration reform and he's right, but it doesn’t get him off the hook.â€

[quote] At a news conference after the event Monday, La Raza President Janet MurguÃ*a said the president had failed the Latino community.

“We’re not satisfied the president has kept his promise,â€