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WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

Yesterday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Democrat from Illinois, was arrested at 4:40 pm (EST) for protesting in front of the White House with others against the deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Gutierrez, has long been a proponent of immigration reform that includes amnesty and passage of the DREAM Act.

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews....otesting/9222/

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

why don't they arrest any Tea Party members always protesting in front of white house.. suns of beaches.

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

wow...i've never seen someone so determined to get their message across....rep. gutierrez is a true politician!!!....that guy is my hero!

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

When the cop was arresting Rep. Luis Gutierrez , what was the crowd screaming in the background?

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

if the students in the backgorund are true dreamers, why are they protesting in spanish o_o? I hear something like "amigos".

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

gutierrez amigo, el pueblo esta contigo.

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

esos si son huevos cabron!!!

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

I am not racist or anything liek that but i really don't understand .. Obama or other congressmen don't understand spanish. So what is the point of protesting in spanish to the white house?

Also, this will give rest of the dreamers a bad image on the news report or media. Protesting with spanish and flagging a mexican flag makes people to assume that most of the dreamers don't even speak english and don't deserve a US citizenship

:(

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

"I am not racist or anything liek that but i really don't understand .. Obama or other congressmen don't understand spanish. So what is the point of protesting in spanish to the white house?

Also, this will give rest of the dreamers a bad image on the news report or media. Protesting with spanish and flagging a mexican flag makes people to assume that most of the dreamers don't even speak english and don't deserve a US citizenship"

I think this is a major logistical problem in our movement.

Our message gets muddled by things like this.

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

Totally agree with star293 and sabzon. We are trying to convey the American people that we have adapted to their society and can function like any one of them. We're not just simply trying to get legalized to start a revolution, so why protest in Spanish?

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

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In a letter to Mr. Gutierrez on Monday, Mr. Obama rejected his proposal to suspend deportations of illegal immigrant college students with clean criminal records. Last week, Mr. Gutierrez and three other House Democrats had sent a letter to the president requesting the suspensions and also asking him to take executive measures to make it easier for illegal immigrants married to American citizens to remain in the United States.
Mr. Gutierrez said he decided to go ahead with the protest after receiving Mr. Obama’s response. “It didn’t disappoint me as much as I was saddened,” Mr. Gutierrez said in an interview after he paid a $100 fine and was released by the police. He was arrested in May 2010 in a similar protest.
In his letter, Mr. Obama argued that immigration authorities had succeeded in increasing the numbers of convicted criminals among immigrants who are deported, while deporting fewer immigrants who lack legal status but have not been convicted of any crime. In 2010, Mr. Obama wrote, 51 percent of deportees were convicted criminals, while 49 percent had noncriminal violations. Two-thirds of the noncriminal deportees had either committed multiple violations of immigration law (which is generally a civil offense) or had been caught at the border soon after crossing illegally, Mr. Obama wrote.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ation-protest/

Quote:

He urged the congressmen to “use your advocacy energy where it will have the greatest impact”—in Congress.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/0...ks-with-obama/

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

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Originally Posted by lilbawler2001 (Post 228357)

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ation-protest/

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/0...ks-with-obama/

obama basically doesn't give a fuck.

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

what did he do though

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

This is america

....speak spanish for fucks sake

Re: WATCH: Rep. Luis Guitierrez Arrested in Front of White House Protesting

Obama gives less of a fuck than Bush