The "Demonstration for Immigration Reform" is scheduled to start at 3 p.m., and organizers are quick to point out that the event is not a march. The rally, they said, is a way to educate the community about voting, and to request the U.S. Congress to support "immigration reform that will benefit our brothers and sisters."

Organizers said they are not expecting tens of thousands of supporters to show up as they did for the immigration march more than a year ago, partly because it's on a weekday afternoon.

More than 40,000 Utahns, mostly Latinos, marched downtown on April 9, 2006, in hope of urging Utah congressmen to push for immigration reform that included a guest-worker program.

ACELA, the Latin American Cultural and Education Association of Utah, Honduras Maya and the Latin-American Chamber of Commerce are the community groups from around the state organizing today's event.

Rolando Murillo, an ACELA volunteer, said the purpose of the event is to make "a political point to our representatives" that those who marched last year are still wanting the same thing: immigration reform.

"We have not forgotten - we're still here," he said. There are an estimated 12 million to 20 million undocumented immigrants nationwide. In Utah, there are an estimated 90,000 undocumented immigrants.

There is an estimated 300,000 Latinos statewide, making up about 11 percent of Utah's population.

jsanchez@sltrib.com