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The DREAM Act, Gutiérrez says, is for now his final legislative maneuver. He’s finished waiting for the mythical 60th vote to materialize in the Senate. No, when the lame duck ends, Gutiérrez and his movement allies will ask for a divorce—from the Democratic Party, from the entire lawmaking process. To hear Gutiérrez tell it, Hispanic leaders are about to stage a full-tilt campaign of direct action, like the African-American civil-rights movement of the 1960s. There will be protests, marches, sit-ins—what César Chávez might have called going rogue. The movement will operate autonomously, no longer beholden to wavering Democrats, filibustering Republicans, and—perhaps most tantalizingly—no longer beholden to Barack Obama.
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[Gutiérrez:] “When black people in this country decided they were going to fight for civil rights and for voting rights, they didn’t ask if the majority leader was with them and when they were going to tee up the bill. They said, ‘We’re sitting where we need to sit on the bus! We’re integrating this counter! We’re going to march!”
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They're still riding on the coat tails of the African American civil rights movement. They have already sucked up all the gains of African Americans for assurances of basic welfare to advance the welfare of people who shouldn't even be here. He is forgetting that the Obamination himself is riding the same coat tails. Meanwhile, there isn't a real African American in sight anywhere in the whole mess.
When people like this begin to believe their own lies, you know their future doesn't look too good. Such a mobilization as Gutierrez describes could do a lot to push Democrats away from restraining enforcement against illegals. I'd like to see them do that.