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Opinion: Workplace justice and immigration enforcement should not be mixed
Antonio’s employer owed him more than $3,000 in unpaid wages but was avoiding his calls. A group of volunteers with Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores, a worker center in Denver, accompanied Antonio to serve his employer a wage demand. He was scared because his employer was not only aggressive but also knew Antonio was undocumented.
How employers steal from workers -- and get away with it
When you work, you expect to be paid for it. Except, for millions of Americans employed across a range of industries like restaurants and construction, that's not always the case. Anthropologist Rebecca Galemba explores the multibillion-dollar problem of wage theft and how employers get away with it, highlighting the changes needed for them to pay up -- and fairly.
Rebecca Galemba: How employers steal from workers -- and get away with it
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Biden's Immigration Plan Should Do More to Protect Workers
Law360 (February 10, 2021, 5:54 PM EST) -- On his first day in office, President Joe Biden proposed a bold immigration plan that would provide more expansive paths to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. The bill, known as the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021,[1] also addresses another crucial problem — the exploitation of immigrant workers — but does not go far enough.
Analysis | Adding troops at Mexico’s border with Guatemala won’t block migrants from coming to the U.S. Here’s why.
What’s more, human rights abuses will probably increase. Migrants from Central America form a chain to cross the Rio Grande to enter the United States illegally and turn themselves in to request asylum in El Paso, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on June 11. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters) June 19 Late last month, President Trump threatened to impose trade tariffs if Mexico didn’t help stop Central American migrants from reaching the U.S. border.
Opinion: When ICE fails to distinguish between the accused and the guilty, justice for all is hampered
A criminal defense attorney recounted a case where a young man got his girlfriend pregnant, leading to a heated interfamilial brawl. His client was charged even though he was only trying to break up the fight. The client, who was undocumented, sat in jail as the case was pursued and witnesses brought in. The district attorney, upon passing the witnesses, said: “I wonder if ICE knows there are so many witnesses from another country.” Out of fear, the witnesses all got up and left.
Opinion: Criminalizing wage theft is only one step in the right direction
“A day worked is a day paid,” a day laborer in Lakewood, Colorado stated . But according to the Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI), this is not the case for many Colorado workers. Each year, half a million Coloradans suffer from wage theft, amounting to $750 million a year, in addition to the associated $25 million to $47 million in lost state tax revenue and potential public services. Wage theft refers to the denial of earned wages and benefits protected under state and federal labor laws.
Coyotes from the Same Wolf
Additional information Author information Rebecca Galemba Rebecca Galemba is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, where she is also co-director of the Korbel Latin America Center. Her book, Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border, was published by Stanford University Press in December 2017. Some of the case studies and background data in this article also appear in the book.
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