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About the changes. >> these immigrant workers really are the drivers of floridas economy. what florida is doing by the government imposing and implementing this law is really punching down on the communities that make this economy run. >> reporter: for some workers, the fear of losing their job is overwhelming. a 21-year-old nursery worker k cried out of frustration saying she and her 3-year-old child have nowhere else to go and no one to turn to. i worry for myself and i worry for others. were ...

Immigrant labor is a boon to many employers and immigrants, but it lowers pay for some low-skilled workers, whether born in America or abroad.

Illinois farm bureau downstate come to me begging for help. they need workers, immigrant workers, at the orchards and dairy farms in the farm operations. this is a very real situation that can be dealt with only of congress bulls up its sleeves on a bipartisan basis and says we are going to change a law and make sense out of. it >> john, is there any common ground on this issue? >> theres a ton of common ground, stephanie. i think everybody knows what the solution is here. ive been watching this...

About lets bring back the humanitarian consideration, when you talk about asylum, this is about providing a humanitarian pathway for folks fleeing persecution. by the order to meet that, you need folks to adjudicate that. so, its about infrastructure. its about men and women power. its not about walls or more border patrol agents. so, if the biden administration can put up those resources and to do so, i think that over the next couple of months that crisis will ameliorate. >> it could also mean...

Activist Luis Valentan battles from a Pasadena radio booth against wage theft, verbal abuse and other ways that immigrant day laborers are exploited. So does his masked wrestler alter ego.

More than three years after 15 laundry workers first lodged their complaint with New York Attorney General Letitia James, the employees—all Latina immigrant women—finally received the first checks for their owed salaries. The case is emblematic of what can be a long road to justice for victims of wage theft, which lawmakers estimate impacts some 2.1 million New Yorkers each year.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 H-1B cap will open at noon ET on March 1, 2023, and run through noon ET on March 17, 2023.

Here's what immigrants on H-1B visas or similar work visas who have been laid off should do once their 60-day window to find a new job starts.

The tech cuts are only the beginning of a broader offensive against jobs by the entire capitalist elite, who are determined to use unemployment as a weapon against the rise of strike activity.

Countries need more immigrants. even though the federal reserve is trying to slow the economy down, the u.s. unemployment rate is at a 50-year low. by some estimates, germany needs an additional 400,000 immigrant workers annually. a recent study by economists found that immigrants account for about 36% of the innovation in america. but a pro immigration policy is impossible if people believe that their countries are being overrun by lawless invaders, human trafficking, and chaos. in order to ope...