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Newsmax) – Eager to jump on President Barack
Obama’s executive order on amnesty, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez stepped up
Wednesday to encourage undocumented aliens to prepare the needed paperwork that
would give them temporary legal status, The Hill reported.
Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who has
championed immigration reform, spoke in both English and Spanish to call on
“millions” to be prepared for their chance to become legal, The Hill said.
“When that door opens, we should have hundreds
of thousands, if not millions, with their documents, ready to submit them,” he
encouraged. “While Republicans are complaining and bellyaching, we’re
going to act.”
He also used his appearance speaking to
immigration activists gathered at a news conference on Capitol Hill to admonish
Republicans that if they didn’t like the president’s plan, they should come up
with another idea of their own, noting what he described as their ongoing
hostilities to Obama’s agenda. He said despite Republican assurances that they
were working on their own plan, Democrats were sick of waiting, The Hill
reported.
“If you do not like what the president of the
United States has done, then it is your responsibility to offer us an
alternative other than to demonize and criminalize our immigrant community,”
Gutiérrez said before defending the president and accusing Republicans of using
immigration to win power in Congress, according to The Hill.
“What unites Republicans is being against
anything Barack Obama proposes,” Gutiérrez said.
Republicans have shot back that Obama’s
executive actions are illegal and have already begun challenging him with a
lawsuit filed by House Republicans against his landmark healthcare
plan, The Washington Post noted of the pushback.
The timing of the lawsuit’s announcement,
minutes after Obama stepped up to announce his executive order, was a direct
shot at the White House and his policies, which have some have dubbed the
“imperial presidency,” the Post said.
While Republicans have said they don’t plan to
use the amnesty battle to shut down government, they have nonetheless prepared
to fight it, The Washington Times noted, outlining a likely scenario that
would carry the issue into 2015.
“Their plan would include passing an omnibus
spending bill to fund most of the government’s regular operations through the
end of the fiscal year, but pulling out funding for Homeland Security, and
passing a short-term stopgap bill to keep those programs running through early
next year. That would give the GOP a chance to return to the issue once their
party takes control of the Senate in January,” the Times wrote.
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