Napa County takes care of its migrant workers with housing and support: “The effort was born of compassion and practicality. Without migrant labor, most of it from Mexico, the wine producers in Napa would be hard pressed to fill a carafe, much less the valley’s 9 million annual cases.” (7)
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The Obama Administration kicked off the Blueprint for Building a 21st Century Immigration System and Immigration Action Roundtables across the country. President Obama is calling for a national conversation on immigration reform that builds a bipartisan consensus to fix our broken immigration system so it works for America’s 21st century…
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In a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld, in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2007 and its so-called business death penalty for employers who repeatedly hire illegal immigrants. The state law also requires employers to check the federal E-Verify system before hiring new workers,…
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President Obama is expected to kick off a series of community conversations on immigration reform. Last year, even when Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House, Congress could not pass the DREAM Act, a bill aimed at providing upstanding young undocumented immigrants with a path to citizenship. With Republicans…
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