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EL PASO -- Cities across the nation are gearing up for a rally in support of immigration reform and a Borderland organization plans to join nationwide efforts. Officials with the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) will be in Washington D.C. next week to educate officials about what they feel are necessary immigration policies. "If [reform] doesn't happen between now and March, it's probably not going to happen until 2011," said Zelene Pineda, with BNHR. "Since next year is an election year, we need to put pressure on D.C. now." It's been several months since president Barack Obama really pushed...

Oddly enough, of all the myriad issues the Obama administration has tirelessly -- and sometimes tiresomely -- addressed, it has been utterly silent over the highly emotional one of immigration. Not a mention of the fact that, despite some runaway returnees to Mexico from this bad economy, there remain millions of illegals living off-the-grid lives in America. Over the years, generally 80 percent of Americans polled have said they want immigration reform, yet not a word from the president on that issue. Even more silence from Congress. So I went recently to the 30th annual meeting of the major immigration...