Luis Gutierrez Quotes
In the public debate, while commentators and critics have targeted immigrants with blame and bullying, our nation's immigrants have simply kept on working, kept on contributing, and kept on hoping for a solution.
United States, Congress, House. Representative Gutierrez speaking on the State of Immigration Reform. Congressional Record, vol. 160, 26 Feb. 2014.
Between 1820 and 1867, the American Colonization Society would relocate 13,000 freed American blacks to Liberia. The present-day capital of Liberia, Monrovia, is named after Monroe.
The Christian Evangelicals in America have been split on their views of immigration. See {632917} for an example of a contrary position.
Most immigration reformers want to open immigration more widely. Ward wanted immigration restricted to certain ethnicities and limited. He wanted a uniformity of assimilation and not diversity.
As in most weak economic times there were more people than usual opposed to immigration. Of the opponents of immigration some were not racist, but a large number were very much racist. Also the racist organizations all opposed immigration. Historically almost all anti-immigration movements were racist. First it was against the Irish, then the Germans, followed by Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Eastern European Jews, and at the time of this quote it was against the Mexicans and other Hispanics.
What is facinating is that the same issue was raised by the 11th Century Muslims of the Middle East about allowing white Christians into their lands, Europe had gone throught the Dark Ages and enering into the Middle Ages where Chrsitian Contributions to civilization were minimal, while the Muslims were inventing algebra, astronomy, art, architecture, poetry, and exceleld in medicine. The few Christian scholars studied in Muslim lands if they could. King reveals his own ignorance by such a statement. He never realzied that the Mexican Artist Diego Rivera was not only a great congtributor to the world of art, but to this day major buildings in the United States including LaGuardia Airpoirt display his great murals. Nobel laureates in Literature were many from Hispanic America. That the state of the art of the medical field of plastic surgery has been centered in Brazil for a number of years, how Muslim Nations like Turkey allowed women to vote before teh United States did, and the great conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is a man from Venesuela. There are thousands of counterexamples to Smith's implication in his question.
Luis Vicente Gutiérrez is an American politician. He served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2019. From 1986 until his election to Congress, he served as a member of the Chicago City Council representing the 26th ward. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus during his tenure in the House. In the 113th Congress, with his 20 years of service, Gutiérrez became, along with Bobby Rush, the longest serving member of the Illinois House delegation, and so was occasionally referred to as the unofficial "dean" of the delegation.
