U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez, democrat from Illinois's 4th congressional district and apologist for illegal immigrantion, offered an offensive and idiotic remark during a congressional hearing in which the father of a girl killed by a drunk driving illegal immigrant was testifying about his daughter's senseless death. The father pointed out that the illegal had been arrested multiple times and never deported. Instead he was allowed to stay illegally in our country and have the opportunity to drink, drive, and destroy the lives of two young women. In some of the father's comments he referred to the illegals as banditos.
Representative Gutierrez offered the following remark to the father:
“What I have seen, unfortunately, is the will to target and to victimize and to scapegoat a community of people,” Gutierrez said. “I have seen that readily here. It makes for great political points but it doesn’t solve the problem and would not have saved your daughter’s life."
How idiotic can this congressman be?! If the laws had been enforced and the perpetrator had been deported as he could and should have been before the day that he once again became drunk and then slammed into the two American girls who were lawfully waiting for a red light to change, he would have never been here to kill the two young ladies. Instead the congressman turns the drunk driver and other illegals into the victims. The next victims of illegal immigrant crime may be some of Rep. Gutierrez's family. I wonder if he will have the same viewpoint then?
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I think we’re missing the point of the testimony here this morning and just so we have it very clear, no one ever has debated, promoted law that does not deport drunks, that does not deport rapists and murderers. Part of the problem is, it’s been said here by some of my colleagues on the other side -- enforce the law.
This Congress and the government of the United States has not shown the political will nor committed the requisite resources to enforce the immigration law. The only way to really do that is to have comprehensive immigration reform. You either sweep millions and millions of people off the streets of the United States of America, which no one is going to propose. So it’s always a little disingenuous to me when people say only enforce the law.
What I have seen, unfortunately, is the will to target and to victimize and to scapegoat a community of people. I have seen that readily here. It makes for great political points but it doesn’t solve the problem and would not have saved your daughter’s life.
It's clear that the congressman isn't saying that enforcing the law wouldn't have saved the girl. To the contrary, he's saying that the focus needs to be on enforcing the laws, not vilifying entire groups in order to score political points. Only enforcing the laws would have saved the girl. Vilifying groups for political points does nothing.
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