The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.

Anybody who looks at all these rallies has to be asking, 'What's the political impact? Some politicians are nervously wondering how many of these people voted in the past and how many will vote in the future.

We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant rights movement.

This is a justice issue. You can't have 11 million vulnerable people being exploited and not have that addressed eventually.

Nothing like this has been seen in this country. And if it continues moving forward, it's the beginning of a massive immigrant civil-rights struggle.