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March 22, 2010

Up to 500,000 March for Immigration Reform in DC
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As the healthcare vote gripped the Capitol, tens of thousands of people
marched through the streets of Washington in a major rally for
immigration reform. Estimates of the crowd size ranged from 200,000 to
as much as 500,000. Organizers held the “March for America” under the
slogan of “immigration reform for new American families, economic
justice for all American families.” Democratic Congress member Nydia
Velázquez, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, called on
Congress and President Obama to back immigration reform.

Rep. Nydia Velázquez: “We stand here to say to the Republican leadership
in the Senate, to the Democrats in the Senate and also in the House, and
the President Barack Obama, we want immigration reform now.”



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