97 Quotes by Luis Gutierrez

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.

I got seven text messages on the rallies the first two days alone, even though I didn't go to any of them.

From a public policy point of view, it worries me that computer whizzes have more value and dignity than a person who cleans toilets or is a gardener,

If the federal government ends the peace by moving in to arrest these demonstrators, then it will be the responsibility of President Clinton, because he is the commander in chief,

It is not better for America to do nothing about an immigration system that hurts families, hampers businesses, and harms communities.