April 9, 2006
As many as a half million immigrants and their supporters marched in downtown Dallas in what one activist described as the largest civil rights march in the city’s history. The protesters urged federal lawmakers to reform the nation’s immigration laws and allow an estimated 11 million undocumented workers to become legal residents. They began demonstrating in scattered cities in March in protest of a proposal passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would make being in the United States without proper documentation a federal crime.
