More than 100 women protested at Capitol Hill Thursday to speed up immigration reform, but police eventually arrested them for deliberately blocking a busy intersection.

The organizers said about 25 people who participated were doing so without legal papers to be in the United States, according to the New York Times. All of the people who were arrested were given misdemeanor citations and were released with a $50 fine.

The timing of the protest was not surprising because House leaders recently said that undocumented immigration would likely be sent to the back burner for the time being while the government deals with the crisis in Syria. Earlier this summer the senate passed an immigration pill that allows undocumented immigrants a 13-year path to citizenship.

Some people in Congress do want the immigration bill to be pushed ahead, such as Republican Bob Goodlatte, who has been outspoken about his views on immigration.

"Those bills are ready to go to the floor of the house and it's my hope they come to the floor of the House as soon as possible," he said.

However, he has remained somewhat on the fence about the issue, perhaps because we do not yet know what the specifications of the bill would be.

"We don't know what this bill is going to look like...but whether it's a legal status or whether it includes a legal status and then a way to earn citizenship through education, military service, or types of employment, whatever the case might be, all of this is being discussed," Goodlatte said.