The Forward-with-Your-Promise Caravan is traveling 1000 miles from Central Florida to Washington D.C. to push for immigration reform. The activists made a brief stop in Jacksonville.

On Friday, around a dozen immigration rights advocates gathered on the steps of city hall to encourage Duval County lawmakers to help change U.S. immigration policies.

Tirso Moreno with the Farmworkers Association of Florida says current immigration laws tear families apart and set undocumented residents up to be victims of crime, abuse, and discrimination.

Moreno says they’re on their way to Washington to remind President Obama of his obligation to them.

“We have been promised. I mean the president promised not in the last election but the election before that - 4 years ago - that he was going to deal with that need but it has not happened”, said Moreno.

Moreno says the Forward-with-Your-Promise Caravan will be picking up more riders along its 1000 mile trek north.

The group plans to make it to D.C. in time for President Obama’s inauguration on January 20th.