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DHS Announces New Center for Countering Human Trafficking

Madison McQueen — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:44:06 +0000

On October 15, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced the opening of the U.S. government’s first-ever integrated law enforcement operations center. This new center will directly target human trafficking and forced labor through federal criminal investigations, victim assistance efforts, intelligence analysis and outreach. The operation will focus on what they [...]

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Agriculture Department Moves to Make Foreign Farm Workers Cheaper

Preston Huennekens — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:08:22 +0000

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a notice in the Federal Register that they will refuse to collect the wage data necessary to establish wage rates for H-2A agricultural guestworkers. This will have the effect of lowering wages for workers in the H-2A program, an unlimited guest worker program that research shows already certifies foreign [...]

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AFL-CIO’s Convoluted Response to Trump Guestworker EO

Pawel Styrna — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:00:56 +0000

During a recent interview on Fox’s “Mornings with Maria,” host Maria Bartiromo spoke with Richard Trumka – the president of the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S., the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) – on a wide range of issues. Among the issues discussed was President Trump’s new proclamation temporarily [...]

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Beto Prefers Playing “Race Card” to Protecting American Workers, Nation’s Health

Pawel Styrna — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:14:06 +0000

While appearing on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Beto O’Rourke – a former Democratic congressman from Texas – attributed racist motives to President Trump’s recent idea of a short pause in immigration during record high unemployment and the COVID-19 crisis, portraying it as part of a sinister plot to “stop nonwhite immigration.” Host Joy Reid asked O’Rourke: [...]

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EB-5 Exempt from Trump’s Executive Order

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:25:06 +0000

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on April 22 barring some classes of immigrant and non-immigrant visas. The eight section proclamation notes that “we must be mindful of the impact of foreign workers on the United States labor market, particularly in an environment of high domestic unemployment and depressed demand for labor.” The executive [...]

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The Temporary Suspension of Immigration Does Not Mean Immigrants are Responsible for the Health or Economic Crisis

Ira Mehlman — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:33:14 +0000

President Trump’s Executive Order temporarily suspending immigration to the United States is an effort to respond to a real and urgent national health and economic crisis. The COVID-19 virus has claimed 42,000 American lives, and another 800,000 Americans are infected with the virus. In an effort to contain the spread of the virus, federal, state [...]

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