The next big reform issue: immigration?

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After the House’s historical vote to reform health care on Sunday, many Americans are asking, what’s the next big reform issue? If you ask the thousands of protesters who descended on Washington over the weekend, immigration tops the bill. The last attempt to overhaul the immigration system was defeated in Congress three years ago.

New York Times correspondent Julia Preston looks at what’s on table now. We also hear from Adrian Vasquez, an illegal immigrant who moved to this country twenty years ago and attended Sunday’s rally.

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