A picture is worth a thousand words–and we have so many pictures from 2013 that help illustrate the breadth and depth of the fight for immigration reform this year. We’ve pulled together a list of our very favorite pictures here. For a preview, see below:
Also read our wrap-up of the year in review, here.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) refused to accept the cantaloupes that advocates delivered to him, leaving it in the hall instead, 8/1/13
Nearly 200 advocates and 8 Congressmembers are arrested protesting for immigration reform, 10/8/13
That time that Steve King held an anti-immigrant rally and nobody came, 8/12/13
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
Thank you Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) for being the first House Republican to support HR 15! 10/28/13
Over 100 women arrested on Capitol Hill in an act of civil disobedience for immigration reform, 9/12/13
Eight advocates in New Jersey brave the rain, snow to conduct an act of civil disobedience against immigrant deportations, 12/10/13
The Fast 4 Families praying outside Speaker Boehner’s door, 11/19/13
Advocates chaining themselves around the wheels of a bus in Chicago carrying Brigido, Octavio, and other immigrants scheduled for deportation, 11/19/13
DREAMers in Arizona block a bus carrying deportees from leaving, 8/21/13
Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) visits the Fast 4 Families, 12/5/13
