Gutierrez: “Justice For Immigrants Is Today’s Civil Rights Struggle”

 Progress Illinois reports that “Rep. Luis Gutierrez is growing impatient over his colleagues’ unwillingness to put immigration reform at the top of the congressional agenda this year. Calling “justice for immigrants today’s civil rights struggle,” the Chicago Democrat is preparing to push the issue by introducing a set of comprehensive reforms in Washington next month. Standing alongside immigrants rights advocates from 26 states, Gutierrez led a rally on Capitol Hill yesterday in which he outlined his plan. “We are here to say that we will not rest until the raids stop and our brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers are no longer torn apart by the government of the United States of America,” Gutierrez said.”

KJ