WASHINGTON, USA - Immigration reform legislation is not on the agenda for the upcoming weeks in the US Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday.

Reid told reporters that lawmakers just back from a two-week break would be considering financial market reform and consider a Supreme Court justice nominee to be selected by President Barack Obama.

'We won't get to immigration reform this work period,' Reid said.

Lawmakers resumed work with backers of immigration reform growing impatient over failure to act on one of Obama's campaign pledges.

Last month, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham unveiled the outlines of a plan to lay the path to legalization for millions of illegal immigrants, reinforce border controls and create a process to admit temporary workers and produce biometric Social Security cards.

Obama had called on the senators to turn their plan into legislation, urging Congress to act 'at the earliest possible opportunity.'

The White House acknowledged at the time that it did not yet have the votes to advance a new bill.

Tens of thousands of people marched outside the White House on March 21 to press Congress to move on a long-delayed immigration reform.

Organizers hope the 'March for America' will put immigration reform, which failed in Congress in 2006 and 2007, back on the agenda after a year dominated by health care reform, the economy and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.