mr. gutierrez, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm looking forward to writing my letter to leader pelosi. i want to come back to this committee in the next congress of the united states. nothing is more interesting than coming to this committee each and every time. well, guess what? welcome, mr. rodriguez. >> good to be here. >> you finally heard the republicans say they love a union. one union. one union only. of course, it's the union that helps them promote the kind of sent phobic attitude towards immigrants they like to promote in the congress of the united states. that's unfortunate, but they do like a union. finally there's one. i don't know if the members of the afl cio or what they are. just so we get clear, he keeps talking about the testimony about the i.c.e. union. are there i.c.e. members on the border stopping people from crossing the border? >> my understanding is the responsibility of u.s. customs and border patrol. >> there we go. so there's one union you should stop talking about at the border since i.c.e. agents

mr. gutierrez: how did we get here. republicans are taking away the dack after program and in november of 2012, the republicans were sureshot with asian vote ears. i was working with same johnson nd representative carter and i worked with my mike coffman and in my own state of illinois. but now steve king, michele bachmann and senator cruise are writing a script. it demonize children. in january, you were saying all of the dreamers should get green quards and citizenship. now late on a friday night you are going after the dreamers who ave known any country but this one. they sign up with the department of homeland security. and pass f.b.i. checks so they can get right with the law. and now republicans are saying they should go back in the shadows back to the life of fear where opportunities are few and futures are uncertain. and the winner was president obama and the dreamers and the american people. you want to take that away. thank gdness the senate is gone and this will never become law. is there no one in your confe

mr. gutierrez has worked incredibly hard. as i talked to my constituents, what is so sad is that we are doing this so quickly, dealing with such serious issues and three quarters of the bill is legislation. what is so sad about it is that there are many hard-working people of the 10 or 12 million who are here who are working, pay taxes, and frankly, they send billions of dollars in remittances home, so if we had passed the bill, these people who are working, pay their taxes, keep the money here, strengthen our economy, and pay for their own ticket to bring their child here so the child would not be paying for the parent paying. ,hen you look at those numbers $1000 to a coyote and what concerns me that i think is a desperate situation and many of us have discussed it is between the coyotes and the cartels that they are affiliated or belong to, these are gangs, these are criminals, they are adding to the unstableand nature of these countries that we have been talking about, whether it is honduras or el salvador, and we are not

mr. gutierrez who began by saying he thought there was a moment where we actually might come together in a bipartisan way and get conference of immigration reform right. and i are member i was more hopeful and i was reading a "washington times" article priebus, saying i am unveiling a postmortem, rnc committee chairman promised gop that will, not write off voters. that can with hispanic voters and immigration reform. end quote. i thought that meant that something was going to happen, something that was going to be respectful, something that was going to be compassionate, something that we could come together on. it may not be everywherththing i want, but something. and during my times of doubting achieve -- mr.d gutierrez said, no, no,