3500 Nepali workers leaving Malaysia
RepublicaOctober 31, 2011
Malaysia has said that those illegal workers who return home before the expiry of its deadline -- issued as part of its extensive campaign for wiping out undocumented foreign workers -- will not be punished. In August, Malaysia had launched its biggest ...more »
SV businessman pleads guilty to hiring illegals
TucsonSentinel.comOctober 31, 2011
Under the terms of his plea agreement, the company cannot knowingly hire, recruit or employ undocumented workers and will be required to provide employment verification forms for all employees. He also waived notice of employee-inspection files, ...more »
Citing 'God's call,' faith leaders fight for immigrants
Salt Lake TribuneOctober 31, 2011
The document, endorsed by the state's predominant faith, the LDS Church, was designed to reduce angry rhetoric and emphasize empathy and economic contributions made by undocumented workers. Earlier this year, more than 20 religious leaders and ...more »
In the news this morning: Border busing, a 180-year-old immigrant murder ...
89.3 KPCCOctober 31, 2011
The students are US citizens born to undocumented immigrants. Pa. researchers unable to unearth Irish mass grave – The Associated Press Did the dozens of Irish railroad workers dumped into a mass grave in 1832 in Pennsylvania succumb to disease, ...more »
Illegal immigrants used as car wash slaves
IceNewsOctober 31, 2011
Immigrants and asylum seekers are working in slave-like conditions at car washes across Sweden, according to police. A report by Sveriges Radio (SR) claims that such practices are becoming more widespread in the country, with undocumented workers...more »
California employers embrace E-Verify
San Jose Mercury NewsOctober 30, 2011
Some firms voluntarily run their employees through the E-Verify database in hopes of avoiding government audits or immigration raids that could lead to fines or damage their brands. Federal contractors participate because they must. ...more »
Guest worker plan in Alabama? State has eye on Utah program
Montgomery AdvertiserOctober 30, 2011
Debated at the federal level, a blue card would extend temporary status to undocumented workers who can prove they have worked in agriculture for at least 150 days and lack a criminal background. Those applying for the blue card could be placed on a ...more »
California employers embrace E-Verify
Oakland TribuneOctober 29, 2011
As a growing number of states require public and private employers to use E-Verify, California has gone out of its way to make it voluntary, passing a law this month that bans local governments from forcing firms to use electronic verification. ...more »
Alabama Immigration Battle Mirrors Civil Rights Era
Fox NewsOctober 29, 2011
Scott Beason, one of the law's sponsors. Beason, the powerful chairman of the state Senate's Rules Committee, has prompted some of the comparisons with the civil rights era by telling one group that the Legislature needed to "empty the clip" on the ...more »
The Hypocritical War on "Illegals"
Daily BeastOctober 29, 2011
the tally for the current population of undocumented workers would be $200 billion dollars over the next five years. This, by the way, is going by official ICE figures. In a 2006 senate floor debate, John McCain (version 1.0) stated, “We all know we ...more »
For Undocumented Workers, It's Not-so-Sweet Home Alabama
PBS NewsHourOctober 29, 2011
Paul Solman reports from Alabama on how one of the nation's toughest immigration laws affects workers and employers. JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, how workers, farmers and businesses in Alabama are dealing with a new immigration law that's attracting national ...more »
Undocumented Workers
New York TimesOctober 28, 2011
Re “So Much for the Nativists” (editorial, Oct. 27): With 14 million Americans unemployed and 7 million illegal immigrants working in the United States, jobs should be protected for legal workers. A federal E-Verify law could open up millions of jobs ...more »
The Other Jobs Crisis
Wall Street JournalOctober 28, 2011
While undocumented workers tend to pick the harvest, their labor creates many more jobs down the production stream. The study looked at the impact of a labor shortfall on seven specific crops and extrapolated the findings to Georgia's $11.3 billion ...more »
Workers' immigration status outside scope of Arkansas comp commission
Business InsuranceOctober 28, 2011
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—The Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission would be overstepping its bounds by asking whether residents are illegal immigrants, according to state Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. The commission had sought to prevent undocumented ...more »
Chaffetz immigration bill targeting highly skilled workers advances
Immigration Blog (blog)October 28, 2011
The attorney general had been working on an initiative called the Utah Compact, a declaration supported by the Mormon church and intended to set out a list of guidelines for immigration reform. The Utah Compact has led to a set of bills passed in the ...more »
