97 Quotes by Luis Gutierrez

Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.

DACA is a lifeline for individuals who have grown up in the U.S. but who lack immigration papers.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.

I have never pretended to be a legal scholar, but when scores of lawyers are lining up to agree with the Supreme Court that the president has the power to make choices when it comes to whom to deport and whom to let stay, then I tend to agree with them.

U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.

We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals.

Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.