Immigrant Workers

Source: www.latimes.com --- 41 days ago
The economic slowdown has translated into less work for day laborers, and for some, little reason to stay. For more than two years, Otoniel Lopez Cortez arrived at the Westlake day labor center before 6:30 a.m. to wait for jobs painting houses. Some weeks he earned a few hundred dollars, enough to pay his rent and bills and send money home to Guatemala. ...

Source: www.prnewswire.com --- 37 days ago
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Source: www.ocregister.com --- 34 days ago
Dept. of Labor enforces rule that employer must pay fees. ...

Source: www.visabureau.com --- 17 days ago
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced in a press release this week that Special Immigrant Religious Workers should be aware of upcoming changes. ...

Source: www.vdare.com --- 6 days ago
Recent Article from VDARE.com - A webzine devoted to the National Question. ...

Source: www.mauinews.com --- 18 days ago
Federal agents arrested 21 illegal Immigrant Workers early Monday morning at a Honokowai condominium construction site, the second such raid at the same site in a little more than a month, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. ...

Source: blog.aflcio.org --- 37 days ago
More than 130 years after slavery was banned in the United States, five people in Immokalee, Fla., pled guilty on Tuesday, Sept. 2, to numerous charges of enslaving Immigrant Workers from Mexico and Guatemala, brutalizing them and forcing them to work in farm fields. The guilty pleas prompted lawmakers, newspapers and farm worker advocates to call for immigration reform, new laws and better wages and working conditions to end this “shameful plague.” ...

Source: immigrantconnect.com --- 18 days ago
According to a USCIS Press Release: “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds its customers that authorization for the non-minister special Immigrant religious worker program will expire on Oct. 1, 2008. Individuals applying to serve in the two non-minister categories of the program must either adjust status to permanent residence or apply for, and be [...] ...

Source: gangbox.wordpress.com --- 23 days ago
from PACIFIC BUSINESS NEWS: Illegal Workers booted, but what of their bosses? By Linda Chiem updated 8:00 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2008 Recent immigration raids in Hawaii have all ended the same way, with federal authorities quickly prosecuting and deporting Workers who are working illegally. But it isn’t clear what happens to the companies that hired them. Even [...] ...

Source: www.canadaupdates.com --- 31 days ago
As there is an increase in the Canadian labour market’s demand, Canadian employers are forced to frequently turn to the foreign labour pool to get experienced and qualified candidates, who are capable of taking up the positions in Canada. But, the problem is that there are many challenges in obtaining an initial work permit for a foreign worker and even bigger problem is that fact that it is more difficult to retain the foreign Workers in Canada because work permit cannot be renewed for indefinite period. The only options that are left are either the employee plays a scene form the movie “Green Card” (which is not recommended), or he or she legitimately marries a Canadian. Otherwise it is really very difficult for an employee to get obtain a permanent residence in Canada before the expiry of his or her work permit. And as a result of this, the employer, who invested in the training and developing of the employee, incurs loss. read more ...

Source: www.newsvine.com --- 19 days ago
I bet you many of the same people picking up illegal immigrants to go work on the house right now; are the same ones screaming about the "Mexican" invasion and these criminals should get no mercy and should all be deported. ...

Source: lsp.urban.org --- 41 days ago
This report discusses the contribution of immigrants to Maryland's workforce, trends in the workforce between 2000 and 2006, and recommendations for educating and training Immigrant Workers. Rapid growth in the number and share of Immigrant Workers in the state do not appear to have come at the expense of native-born Workers, who saw their labor force participation grow over this six year period. Maryland's Immigrant Workers are unusually diverse, highly educated and work in key skilled industries such as healthcare, information technology and the sciences. ...

Source: idexer.com --- 20 days ago
NORTH HERO -- Advocates for Immigrant farm Workers are hailing a decision by Vermont State Police not to investigate the immigration status of three farm Workers allegedly assaulted and robbed earlier this month. "This was the first time we had confronted a situation like this," said Col. James... ...

Source: www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org --- 6 days ago
More than one million (1,204,000) non-Hispanics have lost jobs since January, many of them displaced by low wage Hispanic immigrants. Hispanic employment rose by 211,000 over the same period ShareThis ...

Source: www.otherwise.net --- 40 days ago
The following is quoted in full from a press release issued by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. In the meantime, the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA) is reporting that ICE is rounding up Immigrant Workers at Howard Industries in Laurel Mississippi. Immigrant Workers Gain Jey Assurance from DHS: No Checkpoints Along Evacuation [...] ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 35 days ago
Boston financier Robert Hildreth has been contributing to Immigrant service groups around his home state for nearly two decades. So when federal immigration agents raided a garment factory in New Bedford, Mass., last year and began transferring the Workers to Texas detention centers thousands of ... ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 4 days ago
A hidden army of exploited Immigrant Workers are building Dubai's skyscrapers. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has been inside the labour camps they inhabit to capture their lives ...

Source: forum.anothersite.co.uk --- 4 days ago
*300 suspected illegal immigrants caught in SC raid* By MITCH WEISS, Associated Press Writer GREENVILLE, S.C. - Federal agents detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday in a raid at a chicken processing plant that has been under investigation for months. The raid took place during a shift change, when police and federal agents spread through the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms plant and ordered all Workers to show identification, according to officials and witnesses. Maria Juan, 22, was one of about 50 relatives and friends of Workers who huddled at the edge of the plant after the raid, some weeping and others talking frantically on cell phones. She was seeking information about her 68-year-old grandmother, a legal Immigrant from Guatemala who went to work without identification papers but was later released. "Families are going to be broken apart," Juan said. "There will be kids and babies left behind. Why are they doing this? Why? They didn't do anything. They only wanted to work." Immigration officials kept the Workers inside the plant and spent most of the morning trying to interview them and figure out how many are in the U.S. illegally, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald said. The number could be large. A recent review found that immigration paperwork for more than 775 of 825 Workers contained false information, McDonald said. Immigration agents scoured the plant for paperwork and other information for th ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 8 days ago
This is the point in a presidential election cycle when the "battleground states" - those which are undecided and likely to be close for the rest of the contest - begin to take shape. That's in part because of state developments including "hot" state and congressional races and controversial ballot initiatives. The hot races and ballot initiatives are critical in that they help drive voters to the polls and may have an impact on which presidential candidate wins the state. Indeed, George W. Bush did as well as he did in some states during the 2000 and 2004 presidential because of the high turnouts attributed to the use of initiatives on gay marriage. Following is a breakdown of five battleground states that Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are fighting over. Virginia Virginia has 13 electoral votes and Obama has a slim lead of about two points in most polls. The race will be decided in the northern Washington, D.C. suburbs, where growth in the Immigrant population, coupled with large numbers of hyper-education government contractors and technology Workers have changed the demography of the region and made the state "bluer" in recent years. There is also economic anxiety as the western D.C. suburbs are choking under the force of foreclosure rates that rival some of the worst in the country. The hot race is for the 11th congressional district seat being vacated by Republican Representative Tom Davis, who is retiring. Gerry Con ...

Source: weblogs.chicagotribune.com --- 39 days ago
Good morning. The Republican National Convention tonight will pick Arizona Sen. John McCain as its presidential candidate and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will speak at the gathering in St. Paul. In Washington, lobbyist Jack Abramoff is set to be sentenced in his influence-peddling case. Immigrant rights activists are protesting the recent arrest of hundreds of Workers in raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ...