"Smart Enforcement" The First Goal For Immigrants Rights Groups
by Angela Caputo on January 15, 2009 - 2:46pm

Last month, in a church in Chicago’s Humbolt Park neighborhood, Rep. Luis Gutierrez began laying the groundwork for the upcoming battle to usher comprehensive immigration reform through the new Congress.

Gutierrez told a standing-room-only crowd that by heading to the polls last November, they’d helped turn the political tide. But unless immigrants kept the pressure on, there would be no guaranteed end to the repressive immigration policies that continue to tear families apart.

“If [elected officials] look to their left and look to their right and they see millions of people organized … it’s easier to get things done,â€