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Immigration Debate Heats Up In El Paso
Miri Marshall-Weekend Anchor/Weathercaster/News Reporter
Monday, March 2, 2009 – updated: 5:44 pm MST March 2, 2009

EL PASO, Texas -- Quite often, a woman who only identifies herself as Gabriella, gets some tough questions.

"My children, he's always asking for his dad," Gabriella told KFOX. They are tough questions that she doesn’t want to answer.

"I don't want to tell them he's in jail because they're going to start thinking he did something very mean," she said.

She said her husband is in jail because he was caught living in the Borderland as an illegal immigrant. He’s been incarcerated since November 2007.

On Monday, she went to Tempo De Alabanza for an immigration reform meeting. It was hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. It's a part of a the National Unity Campaign, which highlights how families get broken up in immigration.

"The raids and the deportations, they are affecting our Hispanic families," said Pastor Freddy Santiago, who was in El Paso on behalf of Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, also supports the campaign.

The next meeting will be hosted on March 13, and will allow immigrants to give testimony about how the current immigration laws are impacting them and their families.

"I feel very frustrated, because families need to be united. Families need to be together," said Gabriella.

But while some believe families should be together, leaders of the group, Americans for Legal Immigration said the law is the law.

"We're sort of enjoying the show, because of the ludicrous nature of worrying about separating families when immigration laws are enforced and they’re not worried about separation of families when laws against burglaries or drug dealing, those types of things are enforced," said William Gheen, president of the group.

Still Gabreilla argues her husband didn't harm anyone and was just going to work.

"Immigrants shouldn't be at jails,â€