The 60 Best Immigration Reform Pictures Of The Year

It's been a hell of a year for the immigration reform movement. We've held rallies, gone on hunger strikes, conducted acts of civil disobedience all over the country, tweeted/emailed/called/faxed/petitioned our members of Congress, in order to fight for a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented Americans. Here are some of the most powerful pictures from this year...

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DREAMers march on Capitol Hill to tell Congress to stand with families, 6/12/13

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Obama meets with DREAMers, 5/21/13

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Kids to Congress: don't deport my dad! From the A10 "Time is Now" rally on the Mall, 4/10/13

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from the A10 "Time is Now" rally on the Mall, 4/10/13

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Advocates deliver 224 cantaloupes to members of Congress--one to each of the House members who voted for Steve King's amendment to deport DREAMers, 8/1/13

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Rep. Trey Gowdy refused to accept the cantaloupes that advocates delivered to him, leaving it in the hall instead, 8/1/13

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Over 40 immigration reform leaders are arrested in an act of civil disobedience for immigration reform, 8/1/13

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Advocates outside Sen. John McCain's Tucson town hall during August recess, 8/13/13

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Thank you Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) for supporting HR 15! 10/28/13

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That time that Steve King held an anti-immigrant rally and nobody came, 8/12/13

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DREAMers flash their calves on Twitter to show Steve King that there are #nocantaloupecalves here, 7/25/13

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Kevin McCarthy as a dinosaur--because without immigration reform, the GOP will be extinct

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PICO California launches 285-mile, 21-day pilgrimage for citizenship from Sacramento to Bakersfield, 8/13/13

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Advocates outside Rep. Bob Goodlatte's town hall in Virginia during August recess, 8/19/13

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Josie Molina and her mom wait to go on TV. In August, Josie asked Rep. Scott Desjarlais to help her father, who is in deportation proceedings; he refused. 8/20/13

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Banner asking Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) to help keep immigrant families together, 8/28/13

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Nebraska immigrant children ask Congress not to separate their families, 8/13/13

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Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), one of 29 House Republicans who support a path to citizenship, pray with members of the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, 8/21/13

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Advocates ask GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to have a heart for immigrants and their families, 8/14/13

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Thirteen immigrant women force an 11 PM meeting with Kevin McCarthy, after they refused to leave his office and were locked in for more than 6 hours without food or water, 11/7/13

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Over 100 women arrested on Capitol Hill in an act of civil disobedience for immigration reform, 9/12/13

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600,000 petitions delivered to Speaker Boehner in Ohio, 9/4/13

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Eight advocates in New Jersey brave the rain, snow to conduct an act of civil disobedience against immigrant deportations, 12/10/13

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The Grinch/Speaker Boehner with immigrant children waiting to deliver immigration reform letters to Congress, 12/9/13

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Confused children outside Speaker Boehner's office. The Speaker's staff has been keeping his door locked and refusing to interact with advocates, 12/9/13

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Constituents deliver rubber duckies to Kevin McCarthy's Bakersfield office to ask him why he is ducking them, 12/3/13

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Immigrant children caroling to Speaker Boehner during the Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting, 12/3/13

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DREAMers reunite with their deported parents for the first time in years--through the border fence, 6/11/13

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Thousands of immigrants march in New York for immigration reform, 10/5/13

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Charlotte, North Carolina holds a vigil for immigration reform, 10/5/13

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Advocates paper an ICE office in Philadelphia with messages for immigration reform, 10/5/13

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Advocates march across the Brooklyn Bridge, 10/5/13

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Illinois advocates end their pilgrimage for citizenship, 10/5/13

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A small reminder to House Republicans that the immigration reform movement isn't going away... 10/5/13

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Nearly 200 advocates and 8 Congressmembers are arrested protesting for immigration reform, 10/8/13

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the Fast 4 Families praying outside Speaker Boehner's door, 11/19/13

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Advocates in New York ask Speaker Boehner to stop separating families, 10/29/13

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An act of civil disobedience in Chicago, 11/6/13

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Women in Washington state, including the wife of the Seattle mayor, are arrested for immigration reform, 11/7/13

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Maria, the wife of Brigido, weeps as her husband is about to be deported, 11/19/13

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Advocates chaining themselves around the wheels of a bus in Chicago carrying Brigido, Octavio, and other immigrants scheduled for deportation, 11/19/13

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Advocates hold a pre-dawn vigil for immigration reform outside Speaker Boehner's Washington, DC home, 11/20/13

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A Thanksgiving dinner table set up, to symbolize all the families who will be without their loved ones this holiday season, 11/20/13

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A quilt for deported family members lies on the National Mall, 11/20/13

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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus meet with the Fast 4 Families, 11/20/13

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11 DREAMers are arrested after refusing to leave Eric Cantor's office, 11/19/13

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Empty shoes left behind, to symbolize those who have been deported.

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Immigrants in Colorado hold up signs outside a John Boehner/Scott Tipton fundraiser, 9/3/13

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DREAMers in Arizona block a bus carrying deportees from leaving, 8/21/13

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Civil disobedience in Tucson, Arizona, 10/11/13

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Seven are arrested outside the White House, 9/18/13

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Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) visits the Fast 4 Families, 12/5/13

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Caroling on Capitol Hill for immigration reform, 12/12/13

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1500 advocates stormed 200 House Republican offices, 12/12/13

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Eliseo Medina wheeling faster Jim Wallis to the conclusion of the Fast4Families, 12/12/13

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Fasters huddling from the cold at the conclusion of the Fast4Families, 12/12/13