In Shadow of Health Care Vote, Immigrant Advocates Keep Pushing for Change

Even with the health care vote taking over the news, President Obama met with senators and discussed immigration reform last week. All these problems have to be worked on at the same time. - - Donna Poisl

By JULIA PRESTON

WASHINGTON — Immigrant advocates, frustrated with President Obama’s lack of progress on legislation to overhaul the immigration system, called one month ago for a march in Washington that they said would display the strength of their numbers and would give the president the push he needed to get the debate rolling in Congress.

That was then.

In the space of a few weeks, with the acrimonious health care debate eclipsing other issues in Washington, the results advocates can expect from the scheduled rally of tens of thousands of their supporters on the Mall here on Sunday appear to have diminished.
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