An Illinois congressman has called for a stop to immigration raids and promised to push for a comprehensive overhaul to immigration reform so that President-elect Barack Obama can sign it into law. 

Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago, the original House sponsor of a 2007 bill that failed, told a crowd of more than 200 people that he would help to make sure Obama would sign an immigration overhaul bill sometime in the first two years of his presidency. 

Sen. Gutierrez said that workplace raids must stop and he is working to ensure that an immigration bill will be passed.

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