Gutierrez on Amnesty: ‘The President Has a Responsibility To Act’

GUTIERREZ: “I want a path to citizenship. And that’s why it is preferable for me for there to be a legislative solution. But, Andrea, I am — I didn’t come here to pat myself on it, but it’s going to be pretty hard to find anyone that’s worked harder than I have in building coalitions and being respectful of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives over the last two years in trying to put a framework together which we can vote on. And I know there are many wonderful, dozens of wonderful Republican members of the House of Representatives that want to do it. But the speaker said he won’t do it for political considerations. There are a dozen very anti-immigrant xenophobic members of the House of Representatives in the Republican majority that just have a stranglehold."