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Guest Worker Program
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Immigration Blog
Guest Worker Program Urged by Business and Labor Advocates
By Michael H. Neifach, Jackson Lewis P.C.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO have issued a joint statement of shared principles on a visa program for lesser-skilled foreign workers. http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/Joint-Statement-of-Shared-Principles-by-U.S.-Chamber-of-Commerce-President-and-CEO-Thomas-J.-Donohue-AFL-CIO-President-Richard-Trumka. As part of current immigration reform…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Study Highlights Abuses in the Recruitment of Migrant Workers Employed under the H-2 Temporary Worker Program and Recommends Change
It appears that Congress will soon be seriously considering immigration reform. We are likely to hear about the need for new -- or expanding existing -- "guest worker" programs. In…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Will the U.S. Congress Look North to Canada’s Guest Worker Program in Enacting Immigration Reform?
This story from the Washington Post by Nick Miroff evaluates this possibility.KJ
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What is Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
My views on CIR from Huffington Post:For immigrants and immigrant rights advocates, the post-election news that many Republicans understand that comprehensive immigration reform has to be tackled and that key…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Rubén Rumbaut on the Bracero Program
Harvest of Loneliness? Braceros in the American Past, the Politics of the Present, and Lessons for the Futureby Rubén G. Rumbaut University of California, Irvine - Department of Sociology2012In Cristina…
ImmigrationProf Blog
70% Favor Farmworker Guestworker Program
From the Western Growers Association:In a groundbreaking new survey on the public's views of agriculture and immigration, 70 percent of voters surveyed said they would support a streamlined and sensible…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Season of Change: Reforming the H-2B Guestworker Program by Jayesh Rathod
"A Season of Change: Reforming the H-2B Guestworker Program" Clearinghouse Review, Vol. 45, Nos. 1-2, May-June 2011 JAYESH RATHOD, American University - Washington College of Law.ABSTRACT: The mistreatment of seasonal nonagricultural…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Obama Administration’s Reshaping of the H-2B Program
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor unveiled new regulations to reshape the H-2B guest worker programs in work other than agriculture, which officials said would strengthen protections for those…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Five Countries Added to Approved Guestworker List
From USCIS: USCIS Announces 58 Countries Whose Nationals are Eligible for H-2A and H-2B ParticipationFive countries added to this year’s listWASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) yesterday announced that the…
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David Bacon: Borrowed Hands
In "Borrowed hands -- does the H-2A guest worker visa program make it easy to exploit farm workers?," social commentator and photographer looks at a current guest worker program to help…