In Arizona, between 2007 and 2012, the number of undocumented immigrants dropped by forty percent. The exodus has been largely attributed to two sweeping laws targeting undocumented immigrants: the Legal Arizona Worker’s Act (LAWA) (2008) and the controversia... More »
Late last month, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board promulgated Memorandum GC 15-03, which made important changes to the Board’s procedures for addressing immigration status issues arising during unfair labor practice proceedings. This ... More »
Last year California passed several new bills that extend anti-retaliation protections for all workers, including some measures that are specific to immigrant workers. The expanded legal rights and remedies these laws offer could be strong enough to limit reta... More »
In the last decade, labor protections for undocumented immigrant workers have come under attack. In its 2002 Hoffman Plastics decision, the Supreme Court found that undocumented workers fired in retaliation for engaging in mutual aid and protection and in viol... More »
As I noted in part one of this backgrounder, there has been enormous growth in state-level immigration legislation over the last several years. Part two of the backgrounder focuses on state efforts to criminalize work by undocumented immigrants; include or exc... More »
As I noted in a previous backgrounder, comprehensive immigration reform has been stalled in Congress for years. In the meantime, states have forged ahead, implementing their own reforms. Between 2005 and 2011, state legislatures introduced 8,244 laws and resol... More »
As President Obama nears the end of his fifth year in office, his administration is poised to set an unenviable record. By 2014, the Obama administration will have deported over two million people – more than the total number of people deported from this count... More »