Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, a longtime proponent of immigrant rights, wants to extend the benefits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the country's millions of undocumented workers.
In a speech on the House floor defending the proposal, the Chicago Democrat framed the policy in both moral and economic terms.
“Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you means moving forward with no restrictions on which brother and sister and neighbor we think of as ‘eligible’ or ‘deserving,’ ” he said.
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