Hundreds rallied Saturday outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Manhattan to call on President Barack Obama to expand protections to undocumented immigrants.
Organizers say the Obama administration is on track to deport more than two million immigrants since he took office in 2008. They say that number is too high.
They want him to use his executive authority to expand the deferred action program he created for immigrant youth and suspend deportations immediately.
“We need to understand that we have to stand together, where ever you came from because everyone hurts,” said one rally attendee.
“I’m here because all of our people in the Nepali community and other immigrants come here for a better future,” said another.
“As a human being, rather than country, no religious, no race, nothing , but this is for human rights,” said a third.
Similar protests took place across the country.
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