Via Billy
On Saturday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said President Barack
Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was a
"down payment" to the Hispanic community before more grants of amnesty
for illegal immigrants.
Speaking at the National Council of La Raza conference in Los
Angeles, Gutierrez said that Obama assured him during a White House
meeting with Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last week that
he would be as "generous and broad" as he can to "stop the deportation
of our people each and every day."
"You gave us a down payment when you freed 600,000 DREAMers from
deportation," Gutierrez said. "Now it is time for the president in the
United States... [to] free the Mom and Dads of the DREAMers. And to go
further. Be broad and expansive and generous."
Gutierrez said giving amnesty to 100,000 illegal immigrants was "not
expansive" enough, and he called on Obama to give amnesty to "millions
of our undocumented," including the parents of illegal immigrant
children.