Local immigration advocates and civil rights groups are on a hunger strike Wednesday and Thursday to protest the lack of progress on immigration reform in Washington.

One protest organizer said the U.S. government really has no functioning immigration policy right now.

"We're not doing anything to address the fact that we have 15 million people here in the country undocumented illegally. I don't think we're addressing the reasons why people come in the first place, which are for the most part, economic issues. Relationships between U.S. and Mexico. All we're doing is building more fences,” said demonstrator West Cosgrove.

The demonstrators will end their fast with a march from the Chamizal National Memorial to the Plaza downtown starting at 4 p.m. Thursday.

Dozens of similar marches are planned across the country to try and revive immigration reform.