Her lawyer, Lauren Burke, said advocacy groups and government agencies had not always done an adequate job of informing illegal immigrants about their rights under the nation's complex immigration laws.
In 2005, when Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator John McCain of Arizona unveiled a bipartisan immigration bill, which would have provided a path to citizenship to certain illegal immigrants, about 50,000 people rallied here in support.
Starting in 2005, John McCain backed a series of immigration-reform bills that would have allowed most of the country's unauthorized immigrants — about eleven million people — to become legal residents, and possibly citizens.
It published a brochure telling immigrants about their rights, in English, Spanish and Arabic.
Her group has begun an effort to educate immigrants about consumer rights and the perils of employment agencies.
Of those immigrants, about 6.5 million — or nearly 6 in 10 — are here illegally, according to Pew center research.
The Italian police tow in boats full of desperate immigrants — about 6,000 refugees in the past two months.
Emad Choudhury, who moved from Bangladesh in 1978, said he wanted to educate newer immigrants about American social customs.
The tree was planted by Italian immigrants about 90 years ago, according to the granddaughter of a former owner.
Norway, with 4.9 million people, has some 550,000 immigrants, about 11 percent of the population, but 42 percent of them have Norwegian citizenship.
Published census data from the era did not differentiate between native-born Americans and immigrants; about 500,000 foreign-born soldiers served in the Union Army alone.
