Immigrants held at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark are on a labor and hunger strike, refusing to perform jobs that keep the place running. Daily demonstrations take place by families and supporters, at the private prison, financed by Citizens Bank
In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.
Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (You can add your name below)
In rural Wisconsin, which voted heavily for Trump, some farmers who support Trump don’t believe he intends to deport their hardworking employees — that his targets are criminals. But Trump made all undocumented immigrants a priority for deportation.
A poultry worker and union steward in Minnesota shares her thoughts on the fight to protect immigrant workers: "Whether you are undocumented or not, we cannot suffer in silence. We cannot let people violate our rights."
A portrait of the byzantine madness of America and its cold, dispassionate systems regarding the immigrant experience.
Today’s hatemongering reflects a deeply rooted problem: a global “crisis of the right to stay home” due largely to Washington’s role in structuring the world’s economics and politics.
The Washington Bulb Company has agreed to the demands of workers after a three-day strike.
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that immigrants do things, often things that nobody else wants to do. Restaurant, supply chain, and construction work is predicated on the exploitation of immigrant labor.
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