Working Immigrants
A weblog about the business of immigrant work: employment, compensation, legal protections, education, mobility, and public policy.
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OSHA's critique of workers' compensation
States that allow undocumented workers workers' comp benefits
The Diversity Explosion
In your state, how many undocumented immigrants?
Notable facts about undocumented immigrants
Arguments pro and con re legality of Executive Actions
Pew Hispanic Center's estimates for the Executive Action
Some specifics about the Obama Administration’s “Executive Actions”
How Obama devised his Executive Order
Impact of the Executive Order on workers' compensation
Impact of the Executive Order on workers' compensation
Reagan and Bush Sr. used executive orders for immigrants
Chronology of recent news about Executive Orders to come
Food manufacturing workers in NYC
Undocumented workers ensnared by workers comp
California’s undocumented immigrants use fewer health services
Health coverage and health literary among adult Hispanics
Home Economics: the lives of domestic workers
Trends in state immigration laws, from punitive to constructive
No immigration reform? Big cutbacks in farm production, higher food prices
Importance of work safety training in native language
More on Pro Publica’s temp worker report: higher injury risk
Pro Publica’s investigation of temporary labor: Raiteros
Most of construction fall fatalities in New York are foreign-born workers
A free guide to immigrant worker safety and health
Lazarus - like resurrection of immigration reform?
We need joint workforce planning with Mexico
Business and Labor Leaders send letter to Washington
An end to draconian state laws that target undocumenteds?
Does lack of English cause work injuries?
Why training foreign-born workers in their native language is important
Extraordinary visual of international migration
Remittance flows: new World Bank report
The Year of Immigrant Workers and their work injury risks
Many work deaths expected from a project in Qatar
Why we must address immigrant work safety now
Migration of skilled workers from under-developed countries: is it harmful?
Cooperation between OSHA and Latin American consulates
Ethnic networks in Southern California
Temporary agricultural workers: no workers comp coverage?
Strategies of opponents to immigration reform
prospects for immigration reform: good
House Republicans to Undocumented Residents: Drop Dead
Temporary staffing firm and low wage immigrants
Key points in Gang of 8's immigration reform bill
IT workers and H-1B visas: necessary or a scam?
Immigrant workers unaware of workers compensation
Reforms to Legal immigration of low skilled workers
Latino voters and immigration
Reforming temporary worker programs
Remittances from the United States: big, getter fairer
Congressional seats: ready to go Red with slight change in Hispanic voting
The transformation of Mexican farm labor supply to the U.s.
New facts about unauthorized immigrants
Do undocumented workers pay taxes? Answer: Most do today.
Is the STEM problem a fiction?
Five things economists know about immigration
President Obama’s immigration reform plans Jan 29 2013
Senators’ statement of principles on immigration reform
Non-English preference speakers in the U.S doubled since 1980
Introduction to H-2A temporary agricultural worker program
Asian immigrants adding largest numbers to workforce
Chamber of Commerce for comprehensive immigration reform
Introduction to H-2A temporary agricultural worker program
Temporary worker programs: Introduction
Wealth of 2011 data on foreign born workers
Key findings about immigration’s economic impact
Capsule Profile of the Immigrant Worker
Colorado’s surge of Latino voters: sea change in state politics
The "Texas Immigration Solution": Guest worker programs
The Colorado Compact
Large share of small business owners are immigrants
High immigration rates for the future do not fix our aging problem
What are the facts of the decline in the immigrant birth rate?
Nine principles of immigration reform
Trafficking: what is it?
Immigration reform prospects for 2013
Indian immigrants and American hotels
The emerging Latino voting bloc in Arizona
Ten politicans to watch on immigration reform
Asian Americans overwhelmingly for Obama
Latinos delivered for Democrats on Tuesday
Last minute update on Latino voting power
Bloomberg Magazine: lunacy of immigration policy for educated immigrants
Net Labor flow from Mexico to U.S. turns positive again
Snapshot of Indian immigrants: fast growing, highly educated
Importance of Hispanic vote in November
Dream Act: employment and economic impact
Race matters in award of workers comp benefits
Labor force impact of new Obama policy will be large
Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less
Immigrant farm workers in New Mexico given a legal boost
Questionable coverage by workers comp for migrant workers
Alabama now reaping the harvest of its immigration law
Colorado farmer can’t find local workers to replace Hispanic immigrants
NY Times editorial about Alabama Law
Alabama’s Immigration law dissected
further on impoverishment of Hispanics
Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest
In-migration from Mexico has dried up
To boost economy, boost immigration
IT CEOs pitch for a better immigration policy
Tougher ICE enforcement against employers
Supreme Court: key provision in Arizona immigration law is OK
The Latino Electorate in 2010: More Voters, More Non-Voters
Civil rights suits against temporary worker visa violators
More on Utah's new immigration related laws
Critique of H-2A farmworker visa program
Welfare use among immigrants
Hispanic population now 16% of total
The Utah Compact on immigration
New guest worker and other legislation from Utah
E-Verify soon available to individuals
Portrait of Middle Eastern and North African immigrants
The immorality of denying workers comp benefits to illegal workers
States may bar workers comp for illegal immigrants
Estimate of illegal immigrant population in 2010
Analysis of the 287(g) program
workers comp benefits for injured illegal workers: where are we?
"Close to Slavery" ; guest worker programs
State house battles in 2011 over illegal immigration
Will New Mexico farm workers finally be covered by workers comp?
Web of Mass. employer abuses of immigrant worker rights
20% of households speak a language other than English at home
The occupational risks of older Hispanic workers
Immigrant workers in four key sectors: brilliant analysis
A question to readers of Working Immigrants
The Feds crack down on restaurants
Illegal immigration inflow down sharply
Farm Workers' "Take our job" campaign
A brief overview of compensation rights of illegal workers
Another analysis of the Bolton ruling on the Arizona Law
What Judge Bolton ruled what was unconstitutional in the Arizona law
Ohio legislation to bar illegal workers from collecting workers comp
Foreign born workforce growth and distribution
Legal analysis of the Arizona law
Obama’s “silent” raids to enforce immigrant laws
DOJ sues to void new Arizona immigration law
Text of Obama's speech on immigration reform 7/1/10
Paranoia about immigrants: case study in Tennessee
Obama Administration to sue Arizona
ICE targetting five states
A profile of residents of Mexican origin
The new Arizona law outlined
DHS estimates of illegal immigrant population in 2009
Fact sheet on Arizona and Hispanics
Green card activity, 2009
How foreign college students become American workers
What Reid said to predict immigration reform
Joel Kotkin on immigration
Schumer / Graham plan for immigration reform
Health insurance coverage among Hispanics
H-2B Guest worker woes
Immigration reform "on ice"
Illegal immigrants and healthcare coverage
injury in migrant housing covered by workers compensation
Profile of Haitian immigrants and workers
illegal population dropped in 2009
The recession's inpact on immigration
Mexican program to support its citizens in U.S.
Illegal worker awarded workers comp benefits in legal twist
A new book on immigrant entrepreneurs
Expose of criminal behavior by immigration detention officials
Poor labor protections for low wage labor in Los Angeles
NY Times editorial on immigration reform
How a New Jersey town lost one third of its population due to a crackdown
How do illegal immigrants fit into the American economy?
Expanded auditing of American employers re: illegal workers
NIOSH Blog on of immigrant worker safety and health
How do and will immigrants get health insurance?
High injury rates among hotel housekeepers
ICE says 17,500 people trafficked into the US each year
Important 2008 statistics about immigration
H-1B work visas go begging
New York City’s Immigrant-related policies
Expose of private prisons for immigration violators
“Wrong Paths to Immigration Reform”
Healthcare insurance coverage for legal and illegal immigrants
Global Workers Defender Network
Study of low income workers in New York City: violations of worker protections
New study on exploitation of low wage workers
Immigration reform priorities of the administration
health uninsured rates among immigrants: far higher
immigrant employment and unemployment -- figures
Obama expects immigration reform legislation later this year
E-Verify push: update
Another study of foreign born entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Mexican inmigration off, few are returning there
Did ICE enforcement lead to worker unionization at Smithfield?
Global remittances to decline by 7% - 10% this year
Federal program to deputize local law immigration enforcement cut back
The Obama policy: no more showboat raids
Global trend: multicultural societies due to immigration
Immigration reform: Republicans demand guest worker program
The nursing shortage, now back in the news
Update on Global Workers Justice Alliance
Obama to scale back on Real ID
Spotlight on immigrants in Virginia
A note on E-Verify
Immigration reform prospects are up
New California program to assist in workers comp benefits
New York City trains illegal workers for better jobs
Immigrant wages compared to native worker wages in New England
immigrant carwashers in Los Angeles
Postville IA today
DHS press release about new enforcement guidelines
DHS shifts enforcement focus onto employers
Supreme Court: ICE can no longer use identity-theft charges
Indians living in the U.S.: 2 million
Voting by minorities is up, whites slightly down
Unemployment rate for Immigrant labor, 1st Qtr 2009
Latest Pew Hispanic Center report on illegal immigrants, April 2009
Made in L.A.: the immigrant documentary
Mexican immigrants in the U.S.: a profile of a huge presence
Unions are supporting immigration reform
Will Obama push immigration reform?
Farm worker rights: time to set right?
Delay in immigration raids may signal Obama policy change
the competitive demographic edge of the U.S. thanks to immigration
The economics of the Swift meatpacking plant raids of 2006
Remittances to Latin America to decline this year.
Colorado local police raid tax practice to nab illegals
Immigrants and the California economy
illegal Immigration control items in the FT 2010 budget
Dept of Homeland Security: illegal count is down
Federal tax payments by illegal workers
Unemployment Rises Sharply Among Latino Immigrants in 2008
Surge in Hispanic vote, November 2008
White House website posting of immigration policy
Immigrant labor in the economic crisis
Immigrant workers figure in the fastest growing industries
Pew Hispanic Center: Latinos under economic stress
remittances to Mexico fell sharply towards end of 2008
Hispanic employment down, immigrants returning home
Is the Obama team prepared to protect immigrants?
28% of workers in New Jersey are immigrants.
New court ruling: illegal worker eligible for permanent disability award
The Filipino immigrant population
Agriprocessors declared bankruptcy in November
Changes to H-2A farmworker visa program sought by Bush
A look into incarceration of immigrants
What will the Obama administration do?
Medical care for badly injured illegal workers
Fallout from an immigrant murder in New York
A rich study of the illegal workforce’s economic impact
Former CEO of Agriprocessors arrested.
A book on internal worker migration in China
Delusional thinking about immigrants and voting registration fraud
New analysis of workers comp laws and illegal workers
Federal court upholds Arizona law sanctioning employers for illegal hires.
Raid at House of Raeford plant nabs 330 workers
Remittances from the United States declining
Sharp decline in median income of non-citizen immigrant households
Pew Hispanic Center estimates of illegal immigrants, 2008
Assessment of economic benefits of migration to Australia
Homeland Security estimates of illegal population 2007
E-Verify is working better
Occupational risks of Seattle day laborers are very high
An important work safety program for Brazilian workers in Massachusetts
Our broken immigration system
Follow up on the Mississippi ICE raid
Community health centers and occupational injury response
Another large ICE raid
Immigrants create environmental pollution ???
Number of illegal residents way down?
High death rate among Hispanic workers
Agriprocessors' worker safety record
Chained to bed while delivering baby
Employers pushing back against anti-immigration crowd
Hispanic employment figures worsen
Mass convictions after the Postville raid – railroading the defendants
More on Postville IA raid
NY state illegal worker denied work rehab benefits
Profile of a pro-immigrant advocacy coalition
The link to the complete New Bedford Standard-Times series
High quality profile of immigrant labor in one city
A great pro-immigrant blog
4 in 10 green card holders had a prior illegal period of stay
EU toughens stance on illegal immigrants
Two cases of immigrant labor abuses
Postville, IA: nogoodnik employer
Burmese workers replace illegal meat processing workers
14% of Mexicans work in the U.S.
Immigrant Hispanic unemployment rate: 7.5%
One of out six workers is an immigrant
A conservative's endorsement of liberal immigration policy
Incremental immigration reforms held up by Hispanic caucus
Grey market employer crackdowns and illegal workers
Second generation immigrants doing well – study in New York City
Canada recruiting Mexican labor
Follow up on House of Raeford case
Canada needs more immigrant workers
how illegal farm workers from Mexico get healthcare
A mass of data about immigrants in the U.S.
News from Global Workers Justice Alliance
Immigration Mexican American blog
Remittances to Latin America are flat or down
State legislation on illegal immigration: a 2008 inventory
Article on status of Arizona’s Legal Arizona Workers Act
Iowa House of Reps hammers illegal immigrants
How immigration laws really work
All States Deemed Compliant with Real ID
CBS News profile of illegal immigrants
Case of instant local police – ICE data link.
Sent back to El Salvador with its 50% unemployment rate
NPR: Jobs for day laborers decline due to housing slump, economy
NPR story of a new illegal immigrant returned to El Salvador
Arizona employers slow to E-Verify
H-1B year to begin again April 1
New York City area losing jobs due to visa barriers
New Bedford raid follow up: Boston millionaire puts up bail for 40
Seasonal immigrant workers severely cut back, pawn in immigration bill struggle
CT's strategy to cut down on illegal workers
Immigrant votes in 2008
Immigrants have lower incarceration, crime rates
House of Raeford Farms: three quarters of workers are Hispanic
Expose of immigrant worker poultry factory injuries in North Carolina
U.S. population projections: huge impact of immigration
Airzona's economy drying up?
Bush trying to grow the temporary farm worker H-2A program
Michigan law and undocumented workers - contending proposals
States where the Hispanic vote is most important
Analysis of the Legal Arizona Workers Act
Philippines and the planned export of labor
correction: foreign born labor is 17%, not 30%
30% of working age adults are foreign born
Illegal worker in Rhode Island wins workers comp award
South Carolina court approves workers comp for illegal immigrant
A case study of identity theft involving illegal immigratns
Legal analysis of AZ and TN illegal immigrant laws
Arizona about to implement draconian law
Arizona crackdown on illegal workers may hit state economy
More on aftermath of December 2006 Swift raids
Records of Hispanic deaths on the job
After the meatpacking raids: one year later
Domestic slavery in America among foreign workers
“Legal, Illegal Immigrant Numbers at Record Highs”
Florida employer scam involving illegal workers
Searching for farm labor in California
Immigrants in Arkansas
$300 billion a year in worker remittances back home.
Illegal immigrants’ Emergency Care Is Limited by U.S. Rule
Analysis of farm labor economics in California
Case study of work injured immigrant who was deported
Spitzer waffles on driver licenses for illegal immigrants
Illegal immigration and Dem-Rep competition
Don’t get a work injury if you live in Arizona…
Bring back AgJobs? 500,000 workers may be affected
Effort to Curb Illegal Workers' Hiring Blocked
U.S. Immigrant worker figures in a nutshell
Driver licenses in New York State
Legal assaults against illegal immigrants
Global Workers Justice Alliance – update
Working on Faith: failures to protect workers in the Katrina cleanup.
Partnership between DOL and Interfaith Worker Justice
2006 Remittances to Mexico flat – housing downturn in U.S.?
Immigrant nation – new census data from 2006
Tomato farms in Florida – what they say they are doing for workers
for the record: how the Senate killed immigration reform -- the votes
Resistance to illegal immigration crackdown
Senate roll call vote data S. 2611 5 25 2006
Attempt to revive AgJobs portion of Immigration bill
New crack down on illegal workers: what it means.
Refugio: OSHA - Hispanic worker joint safety project in NJ
Real ID program implementation plan issued by DHS
The bill that will not go away
Review of workers compensation coverage of illegal workers
Immigration Malpractice by Citizenship and Immigration Services
Workers comp protections for illegal workers cut in New York
"I think that is something that can be dealt with at a later time.”
Senate to try again on immigration reform
Big trouble with temporary work visa for professional workers.
Coaching Mexicans on labor rights in the U.S.
Green card disasters
Legislative update
Do we need a point system? We cannot avoid it.
Immigration debate resumes
Accuracy in media coverage
Hispanic labor share continues to grow, now 25% of construction
“Make a Bad Bill Better”
Some provisions in Title IV, Temporary worker program
Edgar Velázquez: Maimed at work, then deported
Tracking the aftermath
The Senate has done what it needed to do....
What the Senate Bill is trying to do
What is an immigration point system?
Senate Bill expected for test vote Monday
Chronology of Senate immigration reform bill this year
Ranking economics over family in immigration
guest worker program and all immigrant workers
Operation Return to Sender
Can OSHA protect low wage immigrant workers?
Progress on Immigration reform law
House and White House proposals compared
Republicans continue to be divided.
Huge demand for H-1B visas this month
Senate to address immigration reform in late May, per Sen Reid
STRIVE Act introduced in House, 3/22
White House PowerPoint outline of its proposal
Overview of non-immigrant visa activity
No immigration reform bill yet
slow movement on immigration reform bills
Son of illegal Mexican immigrants makes good
Trafficking in identity papers - a case study
Senator Kennedy leading Senate effort to pass immigration reform bill.
Senator Kennedy on New Bedford sweat shop raid
More on expose about current guest worker programs
New expose on H-2A and H-2B guest worker programs.
2008 Elections and immigration reform
Regional sources of Mexican workers in U.S.
sweat shop in New Bedford MA busted, 350 illegal workers out of work
Two of three new construction jobs go to Hispanics
Live-in domestic foreign in workers in the U.S.
Data about the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs
Digging into abuses of H-2A and H-2B temporary worker programs in U.S.
The IFCO guilty pleadings: what was behind them
Recruiter abuses in H-2A agriculture guest worker program
California labor law enforcement in the underground economy
Executives indicted for tax evasion re: illegal employees
Wealth of statistics on illegal immigrants in the U.S.
AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department’s statement on immigration reform.
U.S. Border Patrol has become more aggressive
OSHA and regional business association join forces to train Hispanic workers
Robert Feenstra on the powerful dynamics linking U.S. and Mexican workforces
Immigration’s impact on American wages by educational level of workforce
Poorly educated immigrant workers hurt, help American workers: 2005 study
New York Times editorial on immigration reform.
Skilled foreign workers – summary statistics
Essential Worker Immigration Coalition: Reform platform
How long do Mexican migrants work in the U.S.? 6 – 11 years
Contractor insurance fraud and why it matters
Human trafficking suit in CT
Tidbits from the first year of this blog
Mexican Government guide for illegally entering the U.S.
Another follow up on the Swift raid: what happened to Cactus, TX.
The net fiscal impact of illegal immigrants? New Jersey and Texas studies clash
A new information center for immigration issues
Mexican remittances were $25 billion in 2006
2/5/07 update on Swift raid
An initiative in California to protect immigrant workers from insurance fraud
H-IB visa quota for this year may be exhausted in first 15 days
American immigration and world trade: the connection
Swift plants for sale after raids?
Reform proposals to protect workers comp rights of day laborers -- Texas
SEIU on immigration reform
NYCOSH online library on immigrant work safety
What President Bush said about immigration reform
Income tax and social security tax payments of illegal immigrants - a legal analysis
Where to find country population, migration and related projections
France’s new skilled labor focus on immigration
Case study of employment results of a large ICE raid on a poultry plant
Shortages of farm labor hit Florida, California. Are they due to immigration enforcement?
Can a work injured illegal immigrant obtain benefits? In Indiana, it depends
Mexican immigrant worker economics - remittances are the goal
Major problems in immigration and future guest work info systems
150 million internal migrants in China today
“Open Doors Wider for Skilled Immigrants”
Immigrant entrepreneurs involved in one quarter of technology start-ups
United States the leader in cities with large foreign born populations
A valuable new public interest group: Global Workers Justice Alliance
From the Economist: government policies to attract the highly talented worker.
Capitol Hill analysis of immigration reform prospects for 2007
A case of sex work coercion of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
DREAM Act proposal: citizenship through military service
Economics of remittances from U.S. to Brazil
New Texas study says illegal immigrants are net benefit to economy
NY Times editorial on Swift Company raids
Things are heating up for a reform bill
Case study of immigrant workers in Hilton Head
Remittances from U.S. to Mexico, 1995 – 2005
MA Governor Romney’s foot caught in illegal worker raccoon trap
Why poorer educated Mexican men come work in the U.S.
Key Democrat tells Homeland Security to back off on new rules about employment of illegal workers
Two reservations about an immigration reform bill
Guest workers in the future: union organizing
Construction accidents in New York City up 61%
“Independent contractor” abuses among immigrant construction workers in Boston
The nursing shortage: real, getting worse, and global
Senate Bill 2612: Guest worker provisions
Senate Bill 2612: rights of current illegal workers
The dog that didn’t bark: failure of anti-immigration as a campaign position
Electoral result: We'll enact a guest worker program next year
Spanish language barriers increase hazards on construction sites
Immigration reform - for 2007?
Immigrant worker fatalities from violence
Arizona, microcosm of views on immigration: candidates positions
Arizona, a microcosm of views on immigration – the ballot questions
size of Indian work populations in the United States.
The Hispanic vote and the next Congress
Immigrant labor essential for New Orleans recovery
Remittances to Mexico expand, new Federal Reserve program helps
Barriers to occupational health services tolow wage workers in CA
Major study of low wage immigrant workers in California
I'll bet the fence is never built
Disparities in education, income among second generation immigrants
Ten top migration issues of 2005
“Subidos” or Mexicans working legally in migrant construction work
Canada’s use of skills based point system for immigration: do we need it?
How an ICE raid crippled a rural Georgia town
A Marie Antoinette statement on illegal immigrants
An analysis of WC law protections for illegal immigrants
New article: Illegal immigrants frequently denied compensation
Many immigrants working at WTC cleanup
Throwaway workers: dangerous jobs take toll on illegal immigrants
House Republicans to stop beating the immigration reform drum
Mexican remittances at annual rate of $20 billion
Wal-Mart further penetrates the banking activities of Mexicans
A new legal tactic against illegal workers in California
Legal battle over WC coverage for illegal workers in AZ
Homeland Security estimates of unauthorized immigrants January 2005
ABCs of Immigration: H-2B (non-agricultural work) Visas
New Orleans suit over H-2B guest workers
Why the Basic Pilot program is a failure
U.S. was 12.4% immigrant in 2005, vs. 11.2% in 2000
Pew Hispanic Center: immigration has not hurt American workers
ABCs of Immigration H-2A (agriculture work) visas
A closer look at Immigration Voice
“Building boom in Mexican town was born in Minnesota”
Immigration Voice, or "Green Card applicants unite!"
More aggressive enforcement by ICE re: employers
A source of practical advice for immigrant professionals
The immense challenge of employee/employer verification, Part 2
The immense challenge of employee/employer verification, Part 1
Where are Hispanic voters concentrated?
Poll: hispanic voters turning away from Bush, Repubican party
High impact of immigrant workers on civilian labor force, 1990 - 2001 and beyond
New study of low wage Korean immigrant workers in New York City
Two loopy proposals to control those pesky illegals
Illegal workers, employers, being pressured by state and local legal action
Do immigrants depress existing wages?
Bloomberg: Economy would fail if illegal immigrants deported
Why the hotel industry wants a guest worker program
Third study out on labor rights violations on Katrina cleanup
More on remittance traffic to Latin America
New Mexico Workplace Safety for Immigrant Workers From Mexico (2005)
Industries lobbying for a guest worker program
Bush may shift more towards House’s immigration proposal
Major developments regarding illegal immigrants, first half of 2006
Massachusetts State Police, IRS use the same illegal worker cleaning crew
Senate immigration bill to lift ceilings on foreign nurses
Wage and benefits by job category, U.S.
Phased immigration reform?
Three suits over subcontracted janitor labor violations
Massachusetts Governor wants state police to round up illegal immigrants
Second report on breakdown of worker safety in Katrina cleanup
Serious breakdown in workers comp for Katrina cleanup
Republican Senator: REAL ID is a real stinker
Jim Platner's analysis of higher construction deaths among Hispanics
Locations of worker centers in U.S.
Fake IDs among Massachusetts construction workers
George Will on short vs long term politics on immigration
Overseas Indians send back $21 billion.
Awareness of workers comp, safety regulation is troublingly low among immigrant workers
Poll: Senate's immigration bill more popular than House's
Illegal immigrant workers face serious risks in Katrina cleanup
Homeland Security's SAVE program to verify employment
How the Senate bill increases worker immigration
Easy to buy fake IDs in Los Angeles
immigration population estimates vary widely
Working conditions in a 800 person poultry plant in Iowa
Colorado split on immigration reform
The two waves of Hispanic labor into the United States
Mohawk RICO case dismissed by Supreme Court
Analysis of employer liabilities over illegal employees
Working in the military to gain U.S. citizenship
10% of young working ago persons in U.S. are non-citizens
Roll call vote for S. 2611 62 yes 36 no
Senate passes S. 2611 62 to 36
Senate ready to vote on final S.2611 with guest worker provision intact
Summary of Senate Bill 2611
A good source for info about working immigration news
My prediction for an immigration reform bill this year
How much illegal workers pay to Social Security: over $6B
Millions of illegal working immigrants may be here on expired visas
Mistreatment of H-2B immigrant guest forestry workers
"Blood Sweat and Fear" - Meat and Poultry Plants (Human Rights Watch, 2005)
House, Senate and Bush ideas on illegal immigrants compared
Bush's May 15 speech on illegal immigration in outline and full text
Rare use of Social Security numbers and IRS data to search for illegal immigrant workers
Political pork and the tamper-proof identification card
Census Bureau reports on Hispanic growth rate
Labor centers for immigrant workers
Wages and economics of immigrant restaurant workers: a case study
Pandering and posturing in Arizona about illegal immigrants.
NPR report on social impact back home of Mexican work migration to U.S.
Illegal Immigrants, Immigration Reform and the Catholic Church
Strangers No Longer: Catholic Church's statement on Hispanic illegal immigration
May Day Immigrant rallies and aftermath
Using fear of raids to estimate the numbers of illegal immigrants
Immigrant labor and agriculture today: fully integrated
RICO suit against Mohawk Industries heard by U.S. Supreme Court
Dept. of Labor helps illegal workers in Katrina clean up to get paid
Can the U.S. reduce its illegal immigrant population by attrition?
Illegal immigrants want to stay, become U.S. citizens
Federal government unable to enforce immigration laws effectively
Nursing shortages: foreign workers to fill them?
What is behind the ICE initiative on illegal immigrants
ICE raids an employer, IFCO, for hiring illegal workers
New Georgia law on undocumented workers S. Bill 529: worth a look
How illegal workers get and use documentation
Another look at immigrant workers and declining labor force participation
Medicaid's new strict identification requirements to create barrier to illegal immigrants.
Congressional poll on immigration bill
Ten reasons why illegal immigrants should file income tax returns
recruitment of foreign nurses to the United States
Economists surveyed about impact of illegal immigrants
Economic impact of a guest worker program on American agriculture
This week’s immigrant demonstrations make big impact
A few handy figures about immigration to work in the U.S.
Lessons from immigration reform in 1986
Opinions by Washington Post, NYT's Nicholas Kristoff
U.S. Senate struggles on April 6 with immigration bill compromise
Case study of Nevada: Do immigrants take jobs from Americans?
developed world pop growth: mostly immigrants
Douglas Massey of Princeton: a blast of fresh air on Mexican immigrant workers
Study: without immigrants, almost 2 million poorly educated Americans would be back in labor force.
The Tyson Foods - illegal immigrant case: past and present.
Anti-guestworker panel argues its case
AgJobs bill passes Judiciary Committee March 27
The Farmworker Justice Fund
David Brook’s illuminating column about immigrants
Large Los Angeles immigration rally echoed protests about Proposition 187 in mid 1990s
Latin American migrants send back $54B in year in remittances
The great demographic shift in the American workforce
Study asserts H-1B visa program undercuts American computer programmers
Senate Committee approves McCain bill on March 27
ICE no longer to impersonate OSHA personnel
Paul Krugman on immigration reform
Skilled labor immigration into the U.S.: some highlights
Legal and illegal immigration survey results
Immigration bill debate heats up in Washington; filibuster threatened
Washington Post columnist: "We don't need guest workers"
Meat processing: an industry engineered to hire immigrants
Non-white populations continue to penetrate more areas of the country
Bill Gates on H1B visas; Manhattan Institute on immigration reform
Does immigration depress wages of native Americans?
Stalemate for Immigration reform this year?
Smuggling of Chinese workers into the United States
Wall Street Journal article on employer use of illegal immigrants
Why Hispanic workers have higher work fatality rates
Study of Hispanic North Carolina Poultry Workers
The “Real ID” program to catch illegal immigrants: Stalled? Dead?
Sen. Specter Guest Worker bill to expand foreign worker programs for professionals
The working immigrant and social mobility in America
Immigration of medical doctors to the U.S.
Types of work done by illegal immigrants and other data from the Pew Hispanic Center
More than 70% of Congress supports a guest worker program
Study: Fatal occupational injuries among Asian workers
Employer obligations in Sen. Specter's guest worker bill
Farm workers labor contractor fraud
Data on immigrants (2000 - 2005)
Sen. Specter bill on illegal immigrants: some key provisions
The undocumented worker debate in Washington this week
Failure of existing guest worker programs as seen in FL figures
The day laborer: characteristics of the individual
McCain Guest Worker bill S 1033: strong worker rights provisions
New study on economics of rural immigrant workers
Florida's improves work protections to migrant workers, progess report just out
Deaths at work: who dies, how
Line up of endorsers of McCain guest worker bill
H-2A visas - snapshot of wage and worker comp rules
Thai worker case in WA reveals turmoil in use of foreign workers
New York court in Balbuena case: worker gets full lost wages
WA Employer settles private RICO suit over use of illegal immigrants
2004 Green card awardees: what work they do
Proposals to tighten worker documentation enforcement
Can illegal immigrants receive workers compensation benefits? MA said, “Yes”.
Illegal immigrants pay taxes, like we do
Immigrant worker injuries at day labor
SAFE: Socially Accountable Farm Employers in Florida
Number of undocumented workers by state and their workforce share
Wall Street Journal article on Brazilian immigrant cleaning business in MA
One out of eight new jobs to be filled by immigrants, 2002 - 2012
IRS gives taxpayer identification numbers (ITIN) to undocumented workers
How immigrants without bank accounts get by
Where immigrant workers live in the United States
What day laborers earn by hour, month, year
Demand for foreign nurses is intensifying
NY Times: U.S. officials defend fake OSHA sting
New York construction safety expert: safe practices hard to find in Brooklyn
Migrant Clinicians Network
Inconsistent quality of healthcare for work injured immigrant workers
Time Magazine poll on views about illegal immigration
H-1B visas and the engineering workforce shortage, per Chair of Intel
Access to medical care denied by ID requirements
High future demand for immigrant construction workers
Immigration officials to continue to impersonate OSHA safety trainers
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Jennifer Gordon: Professor, Researcher, Activist, MacArthur Fellow
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Florida construction injuries and Hispanics (2005)
Brazilian Immigrant Center (Boston, MA)
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Nationwide survey of day labor hiring sites
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