Another stop on the 17-city cross country tour, "United Families". Children and pastors and family members are telling their stories. - - Donna Poisl
By JULIAN RESENDIZ, Al Día
An immigration rally drew about 1,000 people to a church in west Oak Cliff, where a congressman from Illinois vowed to continue pushing for a bill that would help their undocumented relatives gain legal residence in the United States.
Across the street from the church where U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., spoke, more than 20 protesters gathered with signs opposing illegal immigration and reminded passers-by that every job held by an unauthorized foreigner was one fewer job for embattled American workers.
Gutierrez is on a 17-city cross-country tour called United Families, in which he says he's trying "to put a face" on immigrants who live in fear of being deported. He complains that stepped-up immigration enforcement has divided families with children who were born in the United States.
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