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PHOENIX -- Union organizers with the Arizona AFL-CIO say immigration reform is a workers' rights issue.

The Democratic-leaning union held a rally Monday outside Arizona's Capitol to demand a path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona told the dozens of people at the rally that Congress must pass immigration reform this year.

Advocates say hard workers should be rewarded with legal status. They waved signs in Spanish that read, ``The time has come.''

Advocates also marched Monday through downtown Phoenix to protest deportations. That event drew many Hispanic mothers pushing their children in strollers.

The demonstrators marched more than two miles through Phoenix from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery's office.

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    yrreta wrote...
    Yet more evidence why unions
    March 11, 2013 3:29 pm
    are a bad thing. First the unions forced the extinction of our beloved Twinkies, and now this.
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    Bearman wrote...
    Unions?
    March 11, 2013 3:46 pm
    Unions? We don't need no stink in unions! We also do not need law breaking illegals (they did that crossing the border illegally). They are not illegal aliens, they are just undocumented democrats.
    Politically incorrect and proud of it.
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    Steve wrote...
    Unions used to be against illegal immigration, but
    March 11, 2013 4:01 pm
    now find they are just about the only ones who will support the Union.
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    Wrote wrote...
    So
    March 11, 2013 4:23 pm
    The unions finally see their only hope for a future is with...........
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    SurpriseMe wrote...
    need members
    March 11, 2013 4:30 pm
    Unions are hurting for membership they need to immigrants. Immigration reform is already here. It is resolved. azhottopics.wordpress.com .. Unions are old and outdated
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    Constitutionalist wrote...
    "Democrat" Union (1)
    March 12, 2013 9:44 am
    It seems that post 1990 (and perhaps even before then) unions seem to be comprised of groups that lean left, and even further left. In the 1800's to about the 1950's unions had a positive impact in making the workplace safer, and making sure businesses were held to certain ethical standards and did not have total control over their employees. Today, government laws are well in place that help protect employees, and in general punish businesses for illegal practices.
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    Constitutionalist wrote...
    "Democrat" Union (2)
    March 12, 2013 9:56 am
    Now unions are in general a group of overpaid workers that are all but forced to support a certain political group (generally Democrat/progressive). I really never have heard of a union in the past 20 years that in the main supported Republican/conservative groups. As problematic as it is to have a group of workers that an employer has no choice but to pay more than everybody else and can't fire without something drastic happening, it is even more problematic to have a group that is a political machine in a business, and we need as little government involved in business as possible
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