The entire concept of what is and isn’t legal seems lost on Gutierrez.

Via The Hill:

[T]he Chicago-area lawmaker slammed Republicans for trying to derail Obama’s plans for immigration reform without presenting other options.

“If you do not like what the president of the United States has done, then it is your responsibility to offer us an alternative other than to demonize and criminalize our immigrant community,” Gutiérrez said to a packed room of immigration activists and the children of undocumented immigrants protected by the DREAM Act, known as DREAMers.

“What unites Republicans is being against anything Barack Obama proposes,” he said, accusing the GOP of using the issue of immigration against Democrats “in order to regain the Senate and in order to regain more House Seats.”