Luis Gutierrez Arrested For Protesting Deportations (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and 10 other immigration reform supporters were arrested in front of the White House on Tuesday for protesting against the Obama administration's deportation of young people and families.

Gutierrez has been arrested for protesting twice before -- once, in the mid-1990s, against the bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico, and again in 2010 against the Obama administration's deportation record.

On Tuesday, he and other deportation critics sat down in front of the White House with a sign reading "One million deported under President Obama." After about 20 minutes, they were arrested by U.S. Park Police. The 11 protesters will be processed and then released after paying a small fine.

Gutierrez is a vocal critic of the deportation of young people and families, who he says should be protected from removal by an executive order by the White House. But President Barack Obama has repeatedly refused to make such an order, calling for Congress to act on immigration reform instead.

Watch the arrests:

Gutierrez was joined by Deepak Dhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change; Gustavo Torres, Delia Aguilar, Renato Mendoza, and Fernando Garavito of Latino advocacy group CASA de Maryland; Scott Roberts of Progressive Maryland; student activist Jerry Torres; Reverend Lorena Hernandez, and Ana Garcia-Ashley and John Norton of religious advocacy group Gamaliel.

Hundreds of Latino advocates and immigration reform supporters gathered to watch across from the White House in Lafayette Park after a rally against deportations. Adam Luna, political director for advocacy group America's Voice, said the crowd was moved by watching the arrests.

"These are people who are afraid of the police every day, watching their leaders get arrested and speak truth to power," he said. "You were seeing people with their hands over their hearts, just listening intently. It was a really big deal to them."

Comments

[American FF]

11:41 PM on 09/20/2011

I'm in the process of writing a book called...The selling of America for a Peso." It scopes the apathy that is running rampant in this country. The promotion of illegal activity under the umbrella of "humanistic rights" The infringement of American rights by illegals and the role of reverse racism that "Latinos" use to justify squatting in the US. The audacity of Mexicans flying their flag above an upside down US flag. The ignorance of a race that thinks that they're entitled...why don't they go and try to fix their own country? That's because They can't. Mexico has been corrupt for over 200years if not longer and then we can talk about south America. Oh, I forgot...they have preeety people. This is a sample of the topics that I'll touch on.

[LightShadow62]

10:24 PM on 07/28/2011

Guitierrez has been in Congress since 1993 and has only managed to present ONE piece of immigration legislation and that wasn't until Dec 2009. What about his first 16 years in Congress? Was he not concerned about immigration then?

[exit116]

10:51 PM on 08/01/2011

Congress isn't a magic wand.

[Carpetbagger 68]

02:29 PM on 07/28/2011

"No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed." -- Clarence Darrow

[myste]

12:37 PM on 07/28/2011

IF he's deporting them, their comming back faster than, their leaveing. I don't understand, why they don't get it, illegal, is against the law, like any other crime, why are we tolerateing it?I heard that there was an earthquake in Mexico, and 10 million mexcican, lost their lives, and thosands injurjed. Canada, step up, and is sending trops, and medical supplys, Englands is sending food, and military, to help, and keep peace. Swiz, is sending medical and food also, the uS, no to be underminded by these other countries, are sending 10 million, replacement mexicans :) LOL

[rwaller]

10:44 PM on 07/27/2011

I say bravo!!!!!!!!! I don't care what his politics are. Finally a politician with BACK BONE!!!!

[cdchicago]

08:09 PM on 07/27/2011

Get used to it, D.C. This is what he does. he is not the type to back down when he believes he is in the right. In this case he does.

I hope he gets a shot at a microphone so he can talk abotu one of my passions: The Dream Act.

By the way, this is what a Progressive Democrat is supposed to look like. Note the use of the spine.

[am10]

07:16 PM on 08/02/2011

You have a problem deporting people who illegally entered the country?!

[NotReallyHere]

10:14 AM on 08/03/2011

A lot of people tend to ignore the illegal part.

[American FF]

12:07 AM on 09/21/2011

keep dreaming because it'll never happen...spine huh? A little sit in constitutes having a spine...no, that's folding and caving just like all democrats do. Having a spine and balls to boot is standing up to people like you and laughing about the dream act. If all these kids are so educated and want to do wonders then do wonders in the countries of their origins (parents) because they are all illegals and illegal is illegal...definition Websters dictionary...look it up...also look up some other words...deceit, treason, burning of a country's flag and maybe you'll become a little more educated on the topic of illegal immigration. You're an embarrasment

[cdchicago]

08:05 PM on 07/27/2011

Get used to it, D.C.. He is not the back down type. he is very, very passionate about the things he believes in. I hope at some point he gets a microphone so he can talk about one of my passions: The Dream Act.

Luis, my heart is always with you, my good neighbor.

FYI - This is what progressive Democrats are supposed to look like. Note the use of the back bone.

[cdchicago]

08:10 PM on 07/27/2011

*Shrug*

[el patone]

07:08 PM on 07/27/2011

¡Si se puede, Representative Gutierrez! Chicago would be significantly less fun without Latinos.

[cdchicago]

08:11 PM on 07/27/2011

Actually, Chicago would be less without Latinos. Love the Flava!

[American FF]

12:16 AM on 09/21/2011

No actually Chicago would be a much better place without latinos. They've increased the crime rate, invaded nice communities that for YEARS didn't have to deal with the Latino FLAVA (learn how to spell) Latinos are arrogant, pompous and very self serving. They think that they are "all that"...you want domination in a country that doesn't want you (start reading blogs from all over) let's think hypothetically. Let's say for a moment that you do get control, what are you going to do with it? Make it a Latino place? I've seen first hand what latinos are doing to Florida and South Florida specifically and it sucks...kinda like you

[American FF]

12:48 AM on 09/21/2011

yep, less people with more jobs for people who actually contribute to this society instead of putting a drain on it

[American FF]

12:51 AM on 09/21/2011

idiot muy. Se tengo mucho dinero. No, illegals are illegal. it might be less fun but there would be less crime...diga hola to hermano in prison. lol

[Kurfco]

06:24 PM on 07/27/2011

Arresting Luis Gutierrez repeatedly is law enforcement money well spent. Publicize it. There's a great message in there: If the Feds will arrest Gutierrez, a mouthpiece for illegal aliens, despite his being a member of the House of Representatives, what chance does a plain old illegal alien have?! Great message. Let's get it out.

Luis, round up another group and camp in front of the fence again as soon as you can. Could you let me know when you'll be there so I can make sure Univision covers the event?

[scipio2009]

04:27 PM on 07/27/2011

c'mon Lou.

[Black Avenger]

03:23 PM on 07/27/2011

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“Chicago use to be one of my favorite cities in the U.S. and now it's turning into a sanctuary state just like California­. It's disgusting­!”
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I lived in Mexico for eight months -- I'm talking off the grid in villages with no running water. I was in Chicago last year, one of its bedroom communities named Aurora. I didn't see a dime's worth of difference between this place and several Mexican towns I lived in. Everyone was Mexican, no one speaks English.

Obama calls this "diversity."

[Kurfco]

06:26 PM on 07/27/2011

You misspelled this, I'm sorry to say. It should be "diworsity?

[RobietheCat]

07:26 PM on 07/27/2011

Excellent point, thanks.

[Janine547]

02:55 PM on 07/27/2011

Deport him ! Apparently his oath to this country meant nothing. He can have sympathy for those illegals sitting in Mexico while sipping his cerveza.

[tmfallschurch]

02:23 PM on 07/27/2011

Just by reading their names it's no surprise. Who is funding them?

[Kurfco]

06:27 PM on 07/27/2011

I didn't see a single representative of the illegal Indian, Lativian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, etc. communities in the group.

[tmfallschurch]

07:03 PM on 07/27/2011

These people don't care what it cost Americans to pay for illegals to stay here uninvited.

[Black Avenger]

02:20 PM on 07/27/2011

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Philip DeVon wrote:
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"Black Avenger, can you please stop making up facts? YOU ARE A LIAR, and a fool. Illinois' 4th District had roughly 700,000 people in it in 2000. Are you telling me that the population has more than doubled, and that among the now 2 million plus people, there are more than 1,750,000 illegal citizens? Where do you get these numbers, other than the hot air coming from your rear end?"

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Yeah ... that's what I'm telling you, mate -- there's 1.75 million illegals in Gutierrez's district.

Now do your grasp the scale of the problem?

[el patone]

07:22 PM on 07/27/2011

As long as people like you stay out of Chicago, there is no problem.

[RobietheCat]

07:27 PM on 07/27/2011

Or what? Ethnic cleansing?

[RobietheCat]

07:28 PM on 07/27/2011

Thanks again for the post.

People are wrongly assuming the Mexican national illegal invasion is limited to the SouthWest.

Wrong, they want the whole enchilada. (my bad)

[Wolfie77]

10:03 PM on 07/27/2011

And thank God for that.
We're building a tolerant, immigrant-friendly city. The only people that we would prefer stay out of Chicago are people who call the migration of Mexicans an "invasion."

[KIVPossum]

01:19 PM on 07/27/2011

I think there should be more deportations

But if people want to protest it, that is their right. Let them.

[Fnordpocalypse]

02:04 PM on 07/27/2011

then you must love Obama as he has deported more people than Bush.

[brokerallen]

02:27 PM on 07/27/2011

I'm for less deportations. I am concerned that the rule of law is losing it's significance. Political opinion should not replace law. This one issue has done more to erode the sanctity of law than any other. Until the laws are changed they should be followed. That said, protests are a good way to bring attention to laws that need to be changed.