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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protesters marched to the White House Saturday with signs labeling President Barack Obama Deporter In Chief to pressure him to curb deportations of immigrants.

The protesters walked for about an hour from a park in the districts Mount Pleasant neighborhood to a park flanking the White House. It was one of several marches staged Saturday by groups hoping to force the president to use his powers to halt deportations of non-criminal immigrants.

We are bringing the human suffering to the doorstep, said Marisa Franco, an organizer of the Ni Una Mas Deportacin (Not One More Deportation) campaign of the National Day Labor Organizing Network.

But the Washington, D.C., protest of about 250 was small compared to other marches held in the years-long fight for immigration reform.

The national effort did not match the turnout seen in 2006, when millions marched in major cities and communities around the country, inspired by a harsh House-passed immigration bill. Those marches were largely aimed at Republicans, whereas Saturdays marches targeted the president, whom some in the rally said they had help vote into office.

We are bringing the human suffering to the doorstep.

In Eloy, Ariz., numerous supporters converged at the front of a federal detention center, after traveling more than 60 miles from Phoenix, The Associated Press reported.

Hundreds of activists also marched through downtown Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Organizers had said events were planned in 70 cities.

In Washington, D.C., Gloria Ceros, 33, said she had marched other times in the past for the rights of immigrants, most recently in support of DREAMers, young immigrants who have grown up in the country after being brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

Despite the failures of Congress to pass immigration reform, Ceros said she was marching again because she was hopeful the government would one day listen to her pleas.

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