Luis Gutierrez Arrested Protesting Record Deportations - Democracy NOW!

[The Northerner]

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Democracy NOW! DN! - This week, thousands of immigrants and their allies protested outside the White House, denouncing the Obama administration for deporting more than one million immigrants in the last two years. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Democrat from Illinois, was among the dozen of protesters arrested on Tuesday for peacefully occupying the White House sidewalk. He participated in the act of nonviolent civil disobedience one day after he received a letter from President Obama rejecting his proposal to suspend deportations of undocumented college students with clean criminal records. "I thought for one moment, I should have my hands clasped together with handcuffs and taken away to bring attention and to say, I denounce policy that is immoral," Gutierrez says. "Right now the Republicans are leading in their anti-immigrant, xenophobic march both in the House and Senate. With the same vigor that they lead against us with hatred and bigotry, we want to stand up with the same energy for us." Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. Democracy NOW!, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.

[IndianaJoe]

1. Yeah. Obama. Friend to the Immigrant. Mr. Reform. n/t

[swilton]

2. Congressman Gutierrez

1. Nice to put a name/face with a man who walks the talk.

2. Another example of false promises - failure to lead by our man who promised us change that we could believe in.

[Middle finga]

3. The Rightwing should love Obama

[democracy1st]

4. more rw bs from this admin!