Immigrant rights advocates announced they will protest in support of a deferred action program while outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.

The New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ's) will join the Congress of Day Laborers, Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights and the #Not1MoreCampaign and march from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to ICE's New Orleans' regional headquarters on July 10.

The march comes as the circuit court holds a hearing about President Barack Obama's November 2014 executive actions, specifically the implementation of the updated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) guidelines and new Deferred Action for Parental Accountability programs.

Obama's deferred action programs would provide approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants, currently living in the U.S., a temporary three-year stay in the country pending eligibility requirements by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, during his tenure as the state's attorney general, launched a lawsuit to block the new deferred action programs. A Texas federal judge, Andrew Hanen, issued a temporary injunction on the federal government from launching the updated DACA and new DAPA programs. Since then, the Justice Department has issued an appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Abbott's lawsuit has received support from 25 states, namely those with Republican governors and/or attorneys general. The 25 states joining Texas are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

According to NOWCRJ, ICE has "engaged in a new wave of abuses against immigrants in New Orleans and across the country" while the lawsuit continued. The organization alleged ICE's New Orleans facility has used "brutal and unconstitutional" immigration enforcement tactics and its agents target construction workers.

"In recent weeks, ICE agents dragged the wife of immigrant worker Walter Vallecillo from their home and threatened to hold her hostage if her children did not produce their father to be taken into custody," NOWCRJ stated. "ICE is pursuing the deportation of Gustavo Barahona and Jose Adan Fugon after their civil rights were violated in a false arrest and detention by local law enforcement, during which they were held without charge and transferred to immigration custody solely for standing in a public place."

The immigration rights advocates have also called for Obama to end ICE's detention policies and to utilize his executive authority to stop further deportations and release detainees to their families.

"We can't wait to secure DAPA in the courts while ICE is on our doorsteps every day," said NOWCRJ's Congress of Day Laborers organizer Fernando Lopez. "The president took action because undocumented workers and families took brave action in the streets. We will continue to monitor and expose ICE's rogue actions until we have the respect and dignity we deserve."

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