CHICAGO – Illinois' Congressman Luis Gutierrez (IL-04) wants immigrants today to have a "more generous welcome" than his parents did when they came to the United States from Puerto Rico in the 1950s.
In the decade of 1930-1939 the annual rate of migration to the United States averaged 1,800 people annually. In the decade of 1950-1959, by contrast, the Puerto Rican exodus was taking place at a rate of 43,000 persons a year.
Gutierrez, one of Congress' most vocal and radical immigration amnesty supporters, said he will continue to fight for a "safe, legal and orderly" immigration system as he commemorated June as Immigration History Month.
Luis, if your parents came to the US mainland from Puerto Rico, they were not immigrants. They were US citizens to begin with.
Thanks for confusing the subject.
He is as much of an immigrant as I am since I moved from Wisconsin to Illinois.
Luis is, as always, pandering for Hispanic votes.
I never expect him to be truthful of his origins.
He means “came to the U.S. mainland”. They were U.S. citizens, not immigrants.
Gutierrez panders for Mexican-American votes at the expense of his fellow Puerto Rican American citizens.