Immigration marchers take to U.S. streets
(CNN)
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Demonstrators descended on city centers across the country Tuesday to press Congress to give the estimated 12 million people in the United States illegally, a path to citizenship.
In Chicago, a police spokeswoman estimated the crowd at 20,000 early in the afternoon.
Organizers predicted hundreds of thousands of demonstrators would participate in a 2-mile march to Union Park, where an estimated 400,000 to 700,000 people protested last year.
Organizers of this year’s events are focusing on raids by immigration officials that have separated some of the nation’s illegal immigrants from their children, who are U.S. citizens if born in the United States. (Watch one man’s plea for a chance )
One of them could be Elvira Arellano –a Mexican in the United States illegally with her 8-year-old son Saul, a U.S. citizen.
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CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, Thelma Gutierrez and Allan Chernoff contributed to this report.
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