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Advocacy Groups Call On Walker To Drop Immigration Legal Challenge

Wisconsin One Of 26 States In Court Fight Against Obama Executive Orders

By
Chuck Quirmbach/WPR

Wisconsin groups are asking Gov. Scott Walker to pull the state out of a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s recent executive orders on immigration.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard arguments Friday over whether to lift an injunction that’s halted the immigration effort announced last fall. Wisconsin is one of 26 states that are trying to keep a lid of the president’s plans that would let some undocumented residents stay in the U.S.

But attorney Robin Dalton of End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin said her group has signed a legal brief asking that the immigration plan go ahead. She said it would help domestic abuse survivors who are immigrants to come out of the shadows.

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“When immigrants are unable to come forward to work with police or seek assistance from advocates or other service providers, they remain vulnerable,” Dalton said.

Other Wisconsin advocacy groups, Voces de la Frontera and the Workers’ Rights Center have also signed the brief.

Backers of the 26-state lawsuit say the president abused his executive authority when he announced the immigration plan.