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Undocumented Workers
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Hospitality Immigration Alert
By Kara M. Maciel, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By: Robert S. Groban, Jr. Missouri Man Convicted in Scheme to Place Undocumented Workers in Hotels On October 28, 2010, a Missouri man was convicted by the U.S. District Court…
Subject to Inquiry
ICE Notices of Inspection: Obama Administration Prefers “Silent Raids”
In a well written piece from this summer, Julia Preston with the New York Times discussed ICE's new strategy of conducting “silent raids.” The raids involve audits of employer records by…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ICE Checks Papers of Oil Spill Workers
It's all hands on deck for helping with the oil spill fiasco in Gulf--unless you're undocumented. From Kai Wright and Racewire.orgImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have been targeting BP’s…
Best Practices Construction Law
Fake IDs: Undocumented Workers Grounds for Breach of Construction Contract?
Last week Scott Judy, Editor-in-Chief of Southeast Construction magazine, sent me a tweet about a courthouse project in Jacksonsville, Florida where a large number of fake IDs surfaced on the site. As reported in the article, Federal…
ImmigrationProf Blog
No Sweat! A Documentary on the American Apparel Saga
American Apparel, the largest, US-based apparel factory with 250 retail outlets worldwide, until recently employed over 5,000 mostly female undocumented garment workers in downtown Los Angeles. As featured in the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
American Apparel Fires Thousands of Undocumented Workers
American Apparel has more problems (via New York Times), though not with its CEO this time:A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los Angeles isfiring about 1,800…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Kim on Enforcing Civil Rights of Undocumented Workers
Kathleen Kim (Loyola Los Angeles) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming U. Chicago Legal Forum) The Trafficked Worker as Private Attorney General: A Model for Enforcing the Civil…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Erik Camayd-Freixas: Some Thoughts on Criminal Prosecutions of Undocumented Workers
Today's Vero Beach Press-Journal (Florida) has an op/ed byErik Camayd-Freixas entitled "End overzealous prosecution." Erik was one of the interpreters in the proceedings that followed teh Postville raids of Agriprocessors…
Labor Law Prof Blog
A Hoffman Exception?
The Ninth Circuit recently enforced an NLRB order approving a settlement that required an employer to pay liquidated damages to undocumented workers fired in violation of the NLRA--notwithstanding Hoffman Plastic's…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Eighth Circuit Affirms District Court in Valley Park, MO “Illegal Immigration Relief Act” Case
Last year, a federal district upheld the City of Valley Park, Missouri’s “Illegal Immigration Relief Act,” which punishes business owners and employers who are suspected of hiring undocumented workers. The Act is…