Diane Guerrero Quotes
We need comprehensive immigration reform so that we're not creating this cycle of poverty and depression and everything that comes with separating a family.
Guerrero, Diane, and Michelle Burford. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided. Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
In many cases, one spouse is a citizen and the other is not; or the parents might be but not the children; of the children were born in the United States but the parents were not citizens and had no documentation. Under the broken immigration system then, the government would actually deport one family member. Sometimes it was the breadwinner and the legal wife and children would then be forced onto welfare, the taxpayers would have to pay for a family that was doing fine until the government intervened; worst, the children would be kept apart from their father who could not even visit them thereafter. It was the only circumstance in the American system where government would actually destroy families when “family friendliness” was the official policy.
The quote is often misreported as “I am, you know, adamantly against illegal illegal immigration."
For every illegal immigrant working in the United States, there is at least one company or individual who is also breaking the law by employing him/her.
At that time the Republicans had adopted a political strategy of not passing any significant legislation so that they could claim the Democratic President Barack Obama could not lead or do anything. They were committed to limiting Obama to one term. The Republicans controlled the House and had enough Senators to filibuster anything that happened in the Senate. During that period, there was hardly any legislation passed—one of the lowest points of Congressional paralysis and partisanship in American history.
Diane Guerrero is an American actress and author. She is known for her roles as inmate Maritza Ramos on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and Lina on Jane the Virgin. Guerrero grew up in Boston and remained there after the rest of her family was deported to Colombia. She is an advocate for immigration reform. Her role on Orange Is the New Black has contributed to three consecutive wins for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Guerrero is the author of In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, a memoir about her parents being detained and deported when she was fourteen. She currently stars as Crazy Jane in the DC Universe action-drama series Doom Patrol.
