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Walsh visits building trades and manufacturing trainees, hears from advocates for citizenship for undocumented residents
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, right, shakes hands with workers on the job site of a Milwaukee Water Works project to replace aging water pipe. Walsh was in Milwaukee on Wednesday to promote the Biden administration s American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan legislative packages. (Erik Gunn | Wisconsin Examiner)
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh toured Milwaukee Wednesday in a sales pitch for the Biden administrationâs infrastructure package, including conversations and photo ops to make the case for the legislation.
Along the way, Walsh got a reminder from immigrant rights activists of the promises that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have made to support immigrants after four years of anti-immigrant policies under former President Donald Trump.
Voces protests removal of immigrant-centered policies from state budget by Republicans
The Wisconsin State Capitol was closed to the public for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It only took four days after reopening for Republicans in the Legislature to draw a large group of protesters to the hallway outside the Joint Finance Committee meeting (JFC).
On Wednesday, JFC co-chairs Sen. Howard Marklein (R-Spring Green) and Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) released their plan to gut hundreds of items from Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal among them, provisions that would have restored access to driver’s licenses and state IDs for immigrants and provided tuition aid for immigrant students at Wisconsin universities.