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OTTUMWA, IOWA -- With health care reform passing, many experts are looking at immigration reform to be next on the agenda. 

Last weekend hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington D.C. for new immigration legislation.  Among them was Sal Alaniz, the co-chair for Latino affairs in the state of Iowa. 

Alaniz knows from the stories he heard that many families same similar stories of life in America.

“They were describing not only conditions in the country of origin but also their conditions as family here within the United States and many of them losing their relationship with the dad or grandfather or separation from children that concern them very greatly,” said Alaniz.

Alaniz says this issue goes beyond Iowa.

“This issue of immigration reform, some may view it as a something internal to the United States,  something internal, and respective to each of our states, including Iowa.  But I would challenge those listening that this is a global matter.”

Alaniz continues to push for reform in both Iowa and the country as part of immigration legislation.