A Potential Obama Ally Becomes an Outspoken Foe on Immigration

WASHINGTON — Representative Luis V. Gutierrez was all set to be a friend of the Obama administration, a point man for the White House among Latinos. A nine-term Democrat, he had cut his political teeth in the wards of Chicago, just as Barack Obama did, and the two knew each other from their parallel early careers in Illinois.

But instead of a favorite ally, Mr. Gutierrez has become a noisy, needling outsider — and not just in the halls of Congress. Saying he was fed up with the president not leading an overhaul of immigration laws, Mr. Gutierrez was arrested along with more than 30 other protesters on May 1 after a sit-in in front of the White House.

Mr. Gutierrez’s frustration was only deepened by the president’s announcement this week that he would send up to 1,200 more National Guard troops to the border with Mexico, a move Mr. Gutierrez called “sound-bite driven politics.”

“There is 25 years of hard evidence that the president is wrong,” said Mr. Gutierrez, who is chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’s immigration task force. “Border security and immigration are not one-dimensional problems that can be solved by more boots on the border.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/us...sq=immigration &st=cse&scp=10&pagewanted=print

Hero.

woah i read everything. man he has worked hard to pass CIR

“This is the moment for him to act,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “And if we stumble, if somehow we fail, let’s fail together. Let’s fail fighting!”

This guy is no hero. Honestly, I'm tired of people like him, who pretend to be on our side but fail to support DREAM as a stand-alone. But no, let's just all fail together. Why not.

Yeah, when I read the "let's fail together" part, I thought that it's easy for him to say.. I felt so desolate today.. I was thinking about suicidal thoughts but in the end of course it's stupid. This issue is much more real to us than it is to him... I'm really upset because I feel like the momentum we had is already dying out...

same guy who opposed obamacare because it pigeon-holed illegals.

That's quite a disingenuous rationale. You may disagree with his plan of action, but to accuse Luis Gutierrez of being fake ON IMMIGRATION, of all things, is just petty.