December 2, 2009
Migrant Facing Deportation Mounts Hunger Strike at White House

By Elvira Palomo

WASHINGTON – Rodolfo Macias, a Mexican who has lived in the United States illegally for 20 years, is used to taking on challenges – the latest is a hunger strike in front of the White House urging President Barack Obama to deliver the immigration reform that he promised before the end of the year.

Defying the cold on the fifth day of his hunger strike, Macias, who has a deportation order for Dec. 7, asked undocumented aliens to demand the longed-for reform together with family members who are already U.S. citizens.

“We the undocumented ... are not criminals but are workers who mostly left our native lands to find a better life,â€