Emanuel, Gutierrez Cozy Up on Immigration Reform

" Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Luis Gutierrez seem to be in a very different place in their relationship than they were nearly two years ago.

At a City Hall ceremony Tuesday to welcome 50 Chicagoans as U.S. Citizens, Gutierrez lavished the mayor, a man who he'd previously blamed for delaying immigration reform, with praise.

And the mayor returned it.

"He has made clear, as he said, not just to bring people out of the shadows, but to raise all of our sights up to what is to be a true American ideal. You can see now post-the-presidential election that the rest of America has caught up with Luis Gutierrez. Thank you for blazing that path," the mayor said.

The two haven't always been so friendly. During Emanuel's run for Chicago's top executive, Gutierrez endorsed Gary Chico for the office, saying the Emanuel had been on the wrong side of immigration reform.

That icy tone, as Gutierrez told it, began to thaw almost immediately after Emanuel was elected mayor "

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