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National Coalition for Dignity and Amnesty for all Undocumented Immigrants Declarations
Statement of Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez Greetings!
I am sorry not to be able to be here with you, but family commitments have prevented me from leaving Chicago today.
There are few if any issues as important as achieving dignity and amnesty for immigrants.
That is why marches and demonstrations such as this one are so important. Important as they are, it is more important to organize ourselves and work hard on a daily basis to make our voices heard.
Who says politics are not important?
In order to understand the importance of politics you just need to look at the great damage that the devise policy of the Republicans has done to our families and our communities.
They do not want us! They have passed legislation against us!
They have said immigrants, those people who work hard to build this country, are "illegal".
We must teach them that no human being is illegal!
We must make sure that for the upcoming political battles, not a single Latino stays home. We must insure all Latinos know who are their friends and who are their enemies.
We must not allow any Latino to be fooled by our enemies.
If you can vote, you must vote.
What is important is that we must vote out of Congress the enemies of immigrants, so we may proceed to fix the damage done by Newt Gingrich and his anti-immigrant friends to our families and our people.
We must educate the current - and new resident of that White House.
Today, we are working to achieve immigration equality for Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Haitians.
We are also working very hard to obtain a day in court for "late amnesty applicants."
We will devote all of our efforts to those issues in the coming months. Then we must concentrate on electing friends of immigrants to the Congress and the White House.
Once that is done, we need to devote ourselves to fixing the damage done by the terrible immigration law of '96.
The new century and the new millennia must bring justice and freedom. And in order to achieve this in the United States we must insure a just and dignified treatment of immigrants here.
That treatment can only come about as a result of a new general amnesty law for all immigrants.
A new general amnesty law: that must be our goal. In that struggle you can count on my modest contribution.
To victory!
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