peaking to a group of supporters in Chicago on April 6, Gutierrez offered his conditional support for Rubio’s yet-to-be-unveiled DREAM Act approach. “I will support it because it will stop deportations, and if it stops deportations I will support it. It lets ‘DREAMers’ get a work permit — lets them get a driver’s license. They get a non-immigrant visa. There’s no road to citizenship. It’s temporary. It has to be renewed. It’s nothing permanent.”
Gutierrez also took a swipe at President Obama for failing to act on his own, with or without Congress, to change the status of illegal immigrants brought into the United States by their parents.
“There is nothing in Rubio’s proposal,” he said, “that the President of the United States could not administratively do today.”
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