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On May 1, 2009, two rallies for immigration reform took place in New York City. This video depicts scenes from the Madison Square Park rally and the march across downtown Manhattan. The Madison Square Park rally began at 1:30 p.m. with diverse speakers and a text messaging campaign. Despite the pouring rain, hundreds of immigrant rights supporters started marching at 6 p.m. to City Hall, flaunting flags and chanting, calling for immigration reform.
A Feet in 2 Worlds video by Sooyeon Kim.
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Faces of the New York Immigration Rallies. A Feet in 2 Worlds slideshow by Sooyeon Kim.

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Rally for Worker & Immigrant Rights.
Union Square, 14th Street & Broadway.
New York City

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MEXICO CITY -- As President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico City Thursday, a small group of immigration activists demonstrated at the U.S. Embassy on leafy Paseo de la Reforma, close to downtown. They were there to demand comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S. and a stop to immigration raids and deportations.

Children who are U.S. citizens but now live in Mexico because of their parents' deportations were there. While President Obama said at his speech in the Democratic National Convention last year t

Macollvie Jean-Francois, reporter with the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, spent time with early voters in Miami, many of whom waited more than two hours to cast their ballot.

Feet In 2 Worlds senior producer Jocelyn Gonzales wraps up her video series on first-generation voters with an interview with Andrea Moya, born in Puerto Rico in 1986, who moved to New York four years ago to attend college.

Like in a separate dimension, while immigration is barely talked about in the "mainstream" presidential campaign, the Spanish-language war of accusations continues to play on TV screens in the "Hispanic battleground" states.

A few days ago, John McCain's campaign had launched an ad which again accused Barack Obama of sinking immigration reform in the Senate and also charged the Democrats with running "fraudulent" ads.

Tomorrow, the Obama campaign will respond with this new ad in Spanish which will air in