    [Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
    [House]
    [Page H94]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                          SUPPORTING PROTECTED STATUS

      (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House
    for 1 minute.)
      Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, President Trump took action to
    undocument 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador, who have TPS and have
    been working regularly and renewing their documents in the U.S. for
    more than 20 years. He said the same thing to 58,000 Haitians. They
    need to leave in another 16 months. This is the same thing that
    happened with the DREAMers. He made them undocumented, 800,000 of whom
    are working.
      Mr. Speaker, I am tired of coming to work here and meeting people in
    the cafeteria and people who are sweeping floors and doing all kinds of
    work here in the Capitol who now are in fear of losing their legal
    protected status and being able to work here in this country because
    they are undocumented. They want to make people who are working, yes,
    right here in the Capitol of the United States undocumented.
      For that, I call upon us to do the work that we were sent here to do
    and to protect people. We shouldn't be sending 58,000 Haitians back to
    the poorest country in this hemisphere from the richest country. That
    is unfathomable and unconscionable and we shouldn't do it.

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