U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez isn't going away. He recently kicked off a 20-city tour to make sure the White House keeps its promise of enacting immigration reform. The move comes as President Obama faces serious challenges both at home and abroad on several fronts -- the ongoing budget talks with Congressional Republicans, continued strikes in Libya, while the military is already fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the beginning of the 2012 re-election campaign.

The last issue is the reason, Gutierrez says, that comprehensive immigration reform is a political win for the president. In speeches this weekend in Boston and Providence, the congressman says the president must keep his word to the immigrant community that largely supported his campaign in 2008. "We kind of made a covenant. There was a compact. You came to us and you said, ‘Elect me president of the United States and I will be your champion for immigration reform,'" Gutierrez said in Boston last week.

The tour is run by the Campaign for American Children. It will highlight programs such as Secure Communities, which immigrant advocates say have led to the deportation of 400,000 people in just one year.