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Amnesty Bill In House Collapses Posted on September 20, 2013 At least we have a little bit of a victory here! Check it out: In a blow to the hopes of passing immigration reform anytime soon, the bipartisan House “gang of seven” plan is probably dead, and almost certainly won’t be introduced this fall as promised, a top Democrat on the “gang” acknowledges. “It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Dem Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a key player on immigration as a member of the gang, said in an interview with me. “The process is stalled. I don’t believe we’re going to produce a bill anytime soon.”

This undermines the already dwindling prospects for reform, because the House “gang of seven” plan — which would provide a path to citizenship but is significantly to the right of the Senate bill — was seen as a comprehensive plan Republicans who genuinely want to solve the immigration problem just might coalesce around.

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AUTHOR OF HOUSE IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL: 'NOT GONNA HAPPEN'



by TONY LEE
21 Sep 2013

On Friday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who had been working with six other Representatives to write the House's version of a comprehensive immigration bill, conceded that his group's legislation was effectively dead.

“It’s just not gonna happen now," he said.

Gutierrez, a vocal advocate of immigration reform and a member of the House's "gang of seven," told the Washington Post that the House will not likely go forward with his bill "anytime in the near future." The bill would have provided a pathway to citizenship for the country's illegal immigrants.

“It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Gutierrezsaid. “The process is stalled. I don’t believe we’re going to produce a bill anytime soon."

According to the Washington Post, Republicans like Reps. John Carter (R-TX) and Sam Johnson (R-TX) who were a part of the gang of seven "are set to publicly announce that the gang of seven plan is not going to happen." They reportedly "backed away from reform because they caught heat from conservative constituents who wanted more border security." Gutierrez also said the House Republican leadership fell out of favor with the "gang of seven" plan.

The House, though, may still bring up a series of piecemeal bills in order to ultimately go to conference with the Senate, where many conservatives opposed to amnesty believe proponents of a pathway to citizenship for all of the country's illegal immigrants would win.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has said that a pathway to citizenship had to be a "fundamental principle" of any immigration bill Congress passes. He has also indicated that should the two chambers go to conference, many of the key provisions in the Senate bill, which the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of working class Americans, would win out.

President Barack Obama also recently said comprehensive immigration reform was his "number-one priority."

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Thanks for posting the article, NM.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

They reportedly "backed away from reform because they caught heat from conservative constituents who wanted more border security." Gutierrez also said the House Republican leadership fell out of favor with the "gang of seven" plan.

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I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen a picture of Gutierrez when his mouth was not open?

I found One!.

Luis Gutierrez, Socialist Immigration Puppet

Submitted by Trevor on July 28, 2011 – 9:10 pm ESTOne Comment
This week Illinois congressman , Rep. Luis Gutierrez was arrested for staging a sit-in in front of the White House, to demand that President Barack Obama stop the deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez

Without doubt Gutierrez is the US Congress’ leading activist for the open immigration movement – especially Latino immigration.

The Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America and other Marxist groups, have long campaigned against barriers to Latino immigration, for a number of reasons.

The left knows that Latinos lean heavily Democratic in their voting patterns. They also tend to be poor and undereducated, perfect fodder for Marxist agitators and Democrat vote manipulators.

Its no surprise then that Luis Lutierrez is such a champion of the cause – he has spent his whole life working with the revolutionary left.

Of Puerto Rican extraction, Gutierrez grew up in Chicago, where he became a leader of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party – a Marxist-Leninist, pro-Cuban organization.

Luis Gutierrez worked in Chicago mayor Harold Washington’s administration from 1984 to 1985 as the administrative assistant for the mayor’s subcommittee on infrastructure.

Washington’s far left electoral coalition included many members of the P.S.P. Luis Gutierrez who became an Alderman under Washington was able to secure government funds for the P.S.P. sponsored cultural center and for Party sponsored social services.

It was Harold Washington’s socialist and communist stacked administration that first inspired the young Barack Obama to move to Chicago in 1985. It is no coincidence that the nation’s three top immigration “activists,” Obama, Gutierrez and Service Employees International Union Vice President Eliseo Medina, all came out of the Democratic Socialists of America/Communist Party USA led Chicago left.

When Luis Gutierrez was elected to Congress in 1992, Chicago D.S.A. regarded it as a “progressive” move:

Progressive forces in Illinois made history November 3 by electing Carol Moseley Braun as the first African-American woman to the U.S. Senate.
Chicago City Council member Luis Gutierrez was elected the first Latino to the U.S. House of Representatives from the midwest.

When Luis Gutierrez ran for Congress in 1998, D.S.A. did not officially endorse any candidates but he was “recommended” as worthy of a vote by Chicago D.S.A. - citing his involvement in the D.S.A./Institute for Policy Studies initiated Congressional Progressive Caucus and Progressive_Challenge.

Luis Gutierrez, U.S. House of Representatives, 4th District
Luis Gutierrez is a member of the Progressive Caucus, and a supporter of the Progressive Challenge.

A Globalization From Below was a conference held May 29-31, 1998, in Chicago Illinois, organized by Chicago D.S.A.

Invited speakers included Rev. Jesse Jackson and DSAers Dolores Huerta, Rep. Danny Davis, Jose LaLuz, and Stanley Gacek and Luis Gutierrez.

Democratic Left, Issue #1 1998, page 10

In 2008, Jose Laluz would become a leader of Latinos for Obama, while Gutierrez would join DSAer Eliseo Medina on Obama’s Latino Advisory Council.

On October 13, 2010, immigration activists from around the country gathered to join in a vigil and rally in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC., where Congressman Gutierrez and other elected officials launched a new push for comprehensive immigration reform, building to the opening months of 2010. Their banners read “Reform Immigration FOR Families” and “Family Unity Cannot Wait.”

More than 750 people traveled to Washington on buses from up and down the Eastern seaboard and as far away as Texas, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, and Michigan. They spent Tuesday morning meeting with Congressional offices before being joined by thousands of people from the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area, who gathered on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to listen to testimonies from families, veterans and children who face family disintegration because of immigration laws and deportation.

Religious leaders from a diverse array of faith traditions around the country, some organized through “Familias Unidas,” added their voices.

At the event Congressman Gutierrez outlined a set of principles for progressive immigration reform that needs to include a rational and humane approach to legalize the undocumented population, to protect workers’ rights, to allocate sufficient visas, to establish a smarter and more humane border enforcement policy, to promote integration of immigrant communities, to include the DREAM Act and AgJOBS bills, to protect rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and to keep families together.

The lawmakers who joined Rep. Gutierrez on stage and addressed the gathering included Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY),Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chairman Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA), Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairs Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Congressional Black Caucus Member, Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Michael Quigley (D-IL), and Delegate Gregorio Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands).
All of the above are on the far left. Several have ties to the Communist Party and/or D.S.A.

The pressure for open borders to the South is all coming from the US’ hard left.
Luis Gutierrez is no doubt sincere in his views, but he is merely a puppet for some of the most anti-American organizations in the country.

http://www.trevorloudon.com/2011/07/...ration-puppet/

Originally Posted by Newmexican

I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen a picture of Gutierrez when his mouth was not open?

I believe you are right; he probably does not close it even when eating his food.

I do not want to diminish anybody's achievement, but the photo posted under the "I found one!" (comment #6) has probably been doctored with Photoshop. I think it is somebody else's mouth that has been pasted onto Gutierrez's face.

MUY BUENO:

Amnesty Bill In House Collapses

By Clash Daily / 21 September 2013






2013-09-21 at 9.35.36 AM

In a blow to the hopes of passing immigration reform anytime soon, the bipartisan House “gang of seven” plan is probably dead, and almost certainly won’t be introduced this fall as promised, a top Democrat on the “gang” acknowledges. “It doesn’t appear that we’re going to move forward with the group of seven,” Dem Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a key player on immigration as a member of the gang, said in an interview with me. “The process is stalled. I don’t believe we’re going to produce a bill anytime soon.” This undermines the already dwindling prospects for reform, because the House “gang of seven” plan — which would provide a path to citizenship but is significantly to the right of the Senate bill — was seen as a comprehensive plan Republicans who genuinely want to solve the immigration problem just might coalesce around.

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