Hunger Strikes Used by Immigration Reform Advocates

ABC News reported that: "Just a few weeks after graduating from Columbia University, Yadira Alvarez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, is in her seventh day of a hunger strike in front of Senator Charles Schumer's Manhattan offices. She is one of a small group of young immigrants who are putting their health on the line, and for some of them, risking the unwanted attention of immigration authorities, in an effort to persuade the lawmaker to push a bill that could finally give some of them -- and many thousands of other young undocumented immigrants -- a path to legal status in this country. "We can't be spectators anymore," said Alvarez, 22, who came to the United States in 2000 under a tourist visa.