Orlando Sentinel Blog
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Immigrant advocacy groups were reacting today to news that Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Puerto Rican Congressman from Chicago, said he will introduce a bill for comprehensive immigration reform -- just a day after he criticized the Obama administration for delaying on the issue and leaving undocumented immigrants out of health care proposals.
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"Comprehensive immigration reform will get undocumented immigrants into the system and fully integrated into American society," Noorani said. "It will restore order to our legal immigration system by channeling people through ports of entry with visas, not through the desert with a smuggler. This will help us establish a legal immigration system where rules are enforced in a humane way but in a way that builds confidence in the system."
The details of Gutierrez's plan are not available, but he had supported the immigration reform package defeated in 2007, which would have offered legalization to millions of undocumented immigrants.
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