{"id":542133,"date":"2010-04-23T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83123"},"modified":"2010-04-23T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:34:31","slug":"gutierrez-heads-to-arizona-to-fight-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542133","title":{"rendered":"Gutierrez Heads to Arizona to Fight Immigration Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has announced that he will travel to Phoenix to oppose Arizona Senate bill 1070 <a href=\"http:\/\/nuevaraza.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/22\/arizona-join-u-s-rep-luis-gutierrez-and-oppose-sb1070\/\" >at a rally<\/a> at the State Capitol this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/luisgutierrez.house.gov\/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1427\" >statement<\/a> he released today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am going there to let the people of Arizona know that they are not alone in fighting against bigotry and hatred and thousands will join me this weekend at the State Capitol. [&#8230;]<span id=\"more-83123\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I call on all justice loving Americans to join us in Phoenix.  Join us in denouncing this law, join us in calling for its veto, and join us in standing up against hatred when people paint all immigrants and all Latinos as criminals.  In so doing, we will be living by a fundamental truth articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  We need to take a stand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While many immigration activists are applauding his stand on Arizona&#8217;s bill, critics are saying he should mind his own business. From a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/news.aspx?id=163577\" >Medill Reports<\/a> article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Closer to home, Gutierrez\u2019s critics say it\u2019s not his place to intervene in Arizona lawmaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should mind his own business,\u201d said Rick Biesada, director of the Chicago Minutemen Project. \u201cHe should  take care of his own constituents in Illinois. Why would he be concerned with Arizona?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others have gone further, claiming that the immigration policy Gutierrez advocates undermines U.S.  sovereignty and amounts to thinly-veiled amnesty for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuis Gutierrez is the poster boy for illegal immigration,\u201d said Dave Gorak, executive director of Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration. \u201cGutierrez represents the interests of  those who stop at nothing to prevent our government from enforcing its own immigration laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican Governor Jan Brewer has to decide to sign or veto the bill by tomorrow afternoon &#8212; if she does neither, it will become law.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: <\/em>Brewer <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83131\/arizona-governor-signs-immigration-bill\">just signed the bill into law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has announced that he will travel to Phoenix to oppose Arizona Senate bill 1070 at a rally at the State Capitol this Sunday. From a statement he released today: I am going there to let the people of Arizona know that they are not alone in fighting against bigotry and hatred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}