Representative Luis Gutierrez is a Democrat and an elected Representative from Illinois. He is a strong proponent of immigration reform.
On
Saturday, in Los Angeles, Gutierrez told a crowd in Spanish, that he has
assurances from President Obama to be generous and broad in stopping the
deportation of “our people”.
He
also said, “We need to raise our voices, make ourselves
citizens, sign up to vote and punish those who speak ill and criminalize
children who come to our border,".
These comments by the Representative
creates questions. Who is “our people” to Rep. Gutierrez? Is he an American?
Was he born here or did he become a citizen after immigrating here. If he came
to this country, did he do so legally? Of course, one big question is how can a
Representative of The United States advocate “punishing” Americans who have a
differing opinion? Then there is also the question of who criminalized the
children who come to our border?
When Gutierrez was elected to be a Representative
in the United States House, he had to take an oath. The oath is as follows: “I, AB, do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of
the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely,
without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So
help me God.”
Isn’t an illegal alien a foreign enemy?
They are coming here illegally. Violating our laws as their first act in coming
to this country.They aren’t just aliens, they are “ILLEGAL ALIENS”. By taking up their cause against our laws,
doesn’t this make Gutierrez guilty of not supporting our Constitution?
Those against illegal immigration, of which
I count myself as one, are now being threatened with punishment by a
Representative of The United States. Yet, our Constitution says that we have
the freedom of speech. Perhaps Representative Gutierrez ought to read at least
the first amendment to the Constitution he gave an oath to support and defend.
If he really wants to blame someone for
criminalizing those coming to the border illegally, not just children, but all
that come here illegally, he ought to take a look at who wrote the laws that he
seems so willing to be ignorant about and ignore. The laws were written by
lawmakers. His predecessors. People that held seats in the House, Senate and a
President that signed them. That’s how it’s done here in this country. As a
Representative, he ought to know this.
So where did Gutierrez come from? Well, he
was born in Lincoln Park, Illinois. He is an American citizen. So who is “our
people” to him? He went to school in Illinois. His parents are from Puerto
Rico. Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States and those born there
since 1917 are considered United States citizens, but this doesn’t apply, even
if it mattered, to Gutierrez because he was born in Illinois. Gutierrez didn’t
even go to Puerto Rico for the first time until after his freshman year in high
school and he didn’t even speak Spanish until he went there during his high
school years.
He returned to Illinois and attended college
at Northeastern Illinois. So, who exactly does he mean when he says “our people”?
It’s obvious to me that Gutierrez doesn’t
have any respect for the laws. After all, he’s willing to reward people for not
following our laws in coming here. He’s not in favor of enforcing the current
law so why should we create a new law? If there is something he doesn’t like
about the new law or if the law doesn’t give him enough of what he wants, will
he still advocate for people to violate the law claiming that it’s a broken law
that he helped to write?
When does giving an oath mean something to these elected
officials? The definition of oath as intended for those supposedly holding the
public trust is: a
solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what
one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says a solemn
attestation of the truth or inviolability of one's words and something (as a
promise) corroborated.
Representative
Gutierrez has clearly not intended to honor his oath. His word cannot be
trusted. He wants to punish people that he represents for daring to have a
different opinion from his and from those wishing to see the current law
enforced. He’s on the verge of calling for insurrection or revolution. He’s
putting other Americans at risk by telling “his people” to punish anyone that
speaks against his position on an issue. Representative Gutierrez is not fit to
be a Congressman in the United States of America.
You’re
welcome to comment.
Brett
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