DACA

‘This is my home’: Undocumented students, educators await a DACA decision

Leave a Comment / Immigration Reform / By max cyril

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented students across the country live with the fear that they could face deportation and an end to their plans for higher education. The Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has provided work authorization and deportation protections for undocumented people who were illegally brought to the United States as …

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With All Eyes on DACA, the Trump Administration Is Quietly Killing Overtime Protections

Leave a Comment / overtime pay / By max cyril

On September 5, the administration of Donald Trump formally announced that they won’t try to save Obama’s overtime rule, effectively killing a potential raise for millions of Americans. This disturbing development has largely slipped under the radar during a busy news week, marked by Trump’s scrapping of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. …

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How Ending DACA Hurts All Low-Wage Workers

This morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will “wind down,” and in six months, end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a Department of Homeland Security initiative put in place in 2012 that temporarily deferred the deportation of approximately 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. DACA has …

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In Their Own Words: Why Immigrant Worker Protections Must Be Extended

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

A primary goal of the labor movement is to make every job in our country a good job. To do that, we must and we will stand with every worker in the fight for basic rights and dignity on the job. More than 1 million working people are in danger of having their work permits …

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Thanks to Obama, immigrants are getting better jobs

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

The vast majority of undocumented immigrants who have been given the temporary ability to legally work in the United States are currently employed or attending school—helping them make “significant contributions” to various labor markets—according to a national survey released Tuesday by immigrant advocacy groups. The survey took a look at 1,308 people who received legal …

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Supreme Court Should Approve Policies that Will Provide Much-needed Relief to Immigrant Working Families

Leave a Comment / immigration / By max cyril

We applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the DAPA and expanded DACA case, which will have profound consequences for our immigrant brothers and sisters who live and work every day under a cloud of fear, as well as for the state of racial and economic justice in our country. We are confident the …

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‘This is my home’: Undocumented students, educators await a DACA decision

With All Eyes on DACA, the Trump Administration Is Quietly Killing Overtime Protections

How Ending DACA Hurts All Low-Wage Workers

In Their Own Words: Why Immigrant Worker Protections Must Be Extended

Thanks to Obama, immigrants are getting better jobs

Supreme Court Should Approve Policies that Will Provide Much-needed Relief to Immigrant Working Families

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