Luis Gutierrez disses MLK's memory, claims amnesty for illegals is 'Our Selma'

On this 29th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Day, one wonders what Americans committed to King's message have to be thinking in the wake of Rep. Luis Gutierrez's (D-Chicago) Jan. 16 remarks comparing amnesty for illegal aliens to the 1960s civil right movement.

“This is our Selma and we will walk, we will march, we will be arrested, we will do anything and everything it takes to make sure families are protected in this nation,” the poster boy for illegal immigration told a church gathering in New Jersey.

Gutierrez has chosen to ignore that King's primary goal was to make sure black Americans had complete access to rights given to them by the Constitution. He also dismisses the history of illegal immigration and it's continuing impact on the nation's most vulnerable citizens, especially blacks and Hispanic-Americans. In 1991, King's widow, Coretta Scott King,wrote a letter to Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah), who was working on legislation aimed at watering down enforcement against employers who hired illegal aliens.

Mrs. King wrote, “We are concerned, Senator Hatch, that your proposed remedy to the employer sanctions-based discrimination, namely, the elimination of employer sanctions, will cause another problem–the revival of the pre-1986 discrimination against black and brown U.S. and documented workers, in favor of cheap labor–the undocumented workers,” they wrote. “This would undoubtedly exacerbate an already severe economic crisis in communities where there are large numbers of new immigrants.”

More recently, Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, wrote a letter to President Obama warning that giving work permits to illegal aliens would "devastate" the black community.

“Such an increase in lawful workers would have a deleterious effect on low-skilled American workers, particularly black workers,” Mr. Kirsanow said. “Illegal immigration has a disparate impact on African-American men because these men are disproportionately represented in the low-skilled labor force.”

Gutierrez and his amnesty allies are able to get away with their insulting agenda because, as they did in 2003, the mainstream media and the nation's traitorous black "leaders" remain silent while illegal alien advocates continue to make a mockery of a legitimate movement for which many suffered serious physical injury - and death.