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Illinois -- Activist in the suburbs carry out efforts by recovering the spirit of the historic marches of 2006 and 2007 that encouraged scores of thousands of immigrants to take to the streets of Chicago to protest against the Sensenbrenner bill and in favor of immigration reform.

Nevertheless, the reaction of the latin american community in the metropolitan area, two weeks away from the march of May 1 in Chicago, far from being encouraged.

Some latin American business of Waukegan are not responding to the call of the organizers to donate money to hire the buses that would transport the residents from that city to Chicago, indicated activists.

"We only have 30 people that have signed up and we have been asking businesses for aid in order to hire 10 buses for $715 dollars each, but with what has been collected to date we can't even rent one", said Armando Peña, independent activist of Waukegan.

"There is a discouragement on behalf of the businessmen; the people are frightened and they say that with these marches we are going to continue offending the government and they are going to respond with more attacks, but I tell them that we take the example of the Afro-American community and how did they fought for rights", he added.