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Some marchers carried signs stating, "No human being is illegal." Another sign some marchers carried said, "This is what an immigrant looks like."

Photo credit: Barry Saks

The Filipino Migrant Center, Miguel Contreras Foundation, Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach, Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition and Bienestar (Spanish for wellbeing), which provides HIV prevention services in the LGBT-Latino community, each had a contingent.

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One speaker at the park was Uduak Ntuk (below), from Organizing for Action, who characterized his organization as closely aligned with President Obama's agenda.

Photo provided to and added by LBREPORT.com from Organizing For Action

Mr. Ntuk said he was a neighborhood team leader, a second generation immigrant, born in southern California, whose parents' backgrounds were German, Irish, French and Nigerian. Mr. Ntuk said, "Our city has more than 125,000 foreign-born residents. The immigrant story is an American story. The immigrant story is a Long Beach story. We all deserve a common sense comprehensive immigration reform, that keeps our families together...The facts are immigrants are a net positive for our country and our community. They are paying more into the system than they are taking out."

In an email, the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community, a co-sponsor of the event, said the other co-sponsors were Filipino Migrant Center, Coalition for Latino Advancement, Future Underrepresented Educated Leaders, Miguel Contreras Foundation, Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project, Standing on the Side of Love, Orange County Dream Team, The Gay and Lesbian Center of Long Beach, Asian and Pacific American Law Center and Organizing for Action.