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Immigration Rallies Focus On Keeping Families Intact
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In Chicago, home to an estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants, march organizer and Irish immigrant Shaun Harkin said, "the focus here and around the country is to stop the raids and deportations and have an impact."
As the marchers passed, Chicagoans bickered over whether to welcome illegal immigrants.
"I think they should give them an opportunity to become legals," Amieta Curtis said.
"You can't let everyone . . . come here," interjected Cris Pellegrino.
In Los Angeles, stepped-up activity by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was clearly on marchers' minds. "Stop the raids and deportations," signs read.
Local Spanish-language newspapers and radio stations recently carried stories about children left in the United States when parents are deported.
Asked why he and his wife were marching, Ricardo Ortiz, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, said he has children ages 18, 8 and 3. "We don't want to have happen to them what happens to other families, where the kids are here and the parents there," he said.
Staff writers Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen in Chicago, Sonya Geis in Los Angeles, Robin Shulman in New York, and N.C. Aizenman in Washington contributed to this report.
