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With Obama’s focus being on pulling the country out of the recession, ending the Iraq war and reforming health care, many immigrant rights activists worry that the new administration would be less likely to come up with a proposal any time soon to overhaul immigration policies, unless they put pressure on him.
“It isn’t a protest,” asserted Nativo Lopez, state and national president of the Mexican-American Political Association. “It’s a welcoming, and to remind him we’re still here.”