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Guest Worker Program
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Business Placing Pressure on Pelosi and Lofgren
Tom Abate of the San Francisco Chronicle reports:A Bay Area business group hopes to jump-start immigration overhaul by persuading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and San Jose Rep. Zoe Lofgren to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Ontiveros on Immigrant Workers and the 13th Amendment
Maria Ontiveros (San Francisco) has just posted on SSRN both an article (Toledo L. Rev.) and a book chapter on immigrant workers and the Thirteenth Amendment:Noncitizen Immigrant Labor and the…
The Contingency
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Guestworker Class
On Friday, the Eleventh Circuit upheld an order certifying a class of guestworkers who alleged violations of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA). The guestworkers -- from…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Colorado Seeks Guest Workers
According to the Rocky Mountain News, "Two lawmakers from farm districts want Colorado to be the first state to create a guest worker program allowing immigrants to get visas to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Police Captain Allegedly Kidnaps Guestworkers
BREAKING NEWS PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release August 22, 2007 New Orleans, LA Contact: Saket Soni - 504 881 6610Pascagoula Mexican H2B visa workers charge ranking officer with kidnapping, kidnapping with…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Books
Bauer, Mary. Close to slavery : guestworker programs in the United States : a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Montgomery, Ala. : Southern Poverty Law Center, 2007. Hill,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Southern Poverty Law Center Report on Guest Workers
The Law Librarian blog highlights a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center entitled "Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States" (here). Based, on among other things,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Graft and Labor Recruitment in Mexico
A guest worker program is one component of the Senate immigration bill under discussion in Congress. The NY Times (here) today has an interesting article about graft in the recruitment…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Death Trap Compromise
The immigration deal reached between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Thursday that goes to the floor of the Senate this week will exacerbate an immoral…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Menendez Does Not Support the Compromise
Reported on May 17:KEY PLAYER IN IMMIGRATION NEGOTIATIONS VOICES HIS OBJECTIONS TO DEALSen. Menendez says he can not sign onto agreement announced today WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ),…