Creating a Level Playing Field for Guest Workers
Several plans to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, including Senate Bill 744, contain important protections for U.S. and foreign workers that must be preserved as the legislation moves through...
View ArticleMeaningful Immigration Reform Must Protect Guest Workers from Abuse
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue the mark-up of Senate bill 744 – otherwise known as comprehensive immigration reform – there has been the usual beltway chatter that comes with high-profile...
View ArticleSPLC calls on Congress to use immigration reform to end systemic abuses of...
As the U.S. Senate deliberates Senate Bill 744 to reform the nation's immigration policies, the SPLC today unveiled an advocacy campaign to raise awareness of how U.S. companies are exploiting foreign...
View ArticleFlawed study seeks to justify discrimination against U.S. workers
If there is a dominant myth in the debate over America’s treatment of the men and women who harvest our food, it is that U.S. workers won’t take these jobs. A recent study by a researcher named Michael...
View ArticleState Department blog glosses over abuses common in J-1 cultural exchange...
This summer, officials from the State Department are blogging about their tour of jobsites where foreign students are participating in the department’s J-1 visa program. It’s commendable that the State...
View ArticleFederal appeals court ruling in SPLC case closes loophole, protects workers’...
A federal appeals court ruling today effectively closed a regulatory loophole that has depressed wages for foreign workers employed under the H-2B guest worker program as well as domestic workers in...
View ArticleSPLC urges South Carolina senator to seek reform after he helped luxury golf...
In a letter to U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged the senator to seek reform of the H-2 guest worker program used to import workers who claim in a...
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