Expect Pro-Immigration Groups to push their Agenda in the Upcoming Weeks

Demonstrators plan to march in 90 cities across the country Saturday to press Congress to pass laws adjusting the status of millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.—the start of what some organizers deem a new phase of stepped-up activism. 

Organizers representing civil-rights, faith-based and immigrant groups said Friday they have mobilized thousands of supporters from New York and Miami to Los Angeles and Phoenix in what they hope will be the biggest immigration rallies since 2006. That year, in Los Angeles alone, at least 500,000 people thronged the streets. Buses will transport demonstrators from outlying areas to participate in a so-called National Day of Dignity and Respect.

In the agricultural belt of California's Central Valley, organizers from the United Farm Workers will visit fields and collect signatures on postcards urging House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) to push for the immigration system to be revamped. More than half of all field workers are in the country illegally, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

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Several groups will call for the suspension of deportations of undocumented immigrants, many of whom could be eligible for legal residency if immigration is revamped. Over 1.6 million removals have taken place under the Obama administration, an unprecedented number.

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