President Obama promised to make overhauling the immigration system a top priority in his first year as president. He's now in Year Two, and the odds that he'll get to sign a bill before the November midterm elections appear long.
Grass-roots activists are frustrated by the wait for a new system. Thousands of people are scheduled to swarm into Washington, D.C., this weekend to rally for an overhaul of immigration laws.
For activists like Alicia Contreras, a student social worker from Arizona, reform means a path to citizenship for the 10 million or so undocumented people living in the United States. She said she works part-time to keep at-risk kids out of gangs and off drugs, and that many of those kids are from illegal-immigrant families.
"I want them to go to college. I want them to work for themselves," Contreras told NPR as she headed to Washington. "And they tell me … 'You don't live my life. You don't feel what I do. You don't have the world of cannots and do nots.'"
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