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Boletín Informativo No. 1 – Red de Corredores por la Justicia en Migración Laboral

La Red de Corredores por la Justicia en Migración Laboral surge de la necesidad de visibilizar y transformar la actual violación sistemática de los derechos y la criminalización de las personas migrantes trabajadoras ya sea en sus lugares de origen, transito y destino. Por esto, las organizaciones participantes se están organizando transnacionalmente para luchar por un acceso a la justicia y bienestar de las personas migrantes y sus familiares en el continente.

A quick guide: How immigrants who are victims of workplace abuse can now qualify for work authorizations (en ingles y español)

In English Have you heard about the new DHS policy which providing immigrant protections for immigrant workers who report workplace abuse? Yes! If you, or anyone you know has been a victim of workplace abuse, wage theft, or harassment, there’s now a way to report it, and be able to qualify for a deferred action…

Note to President Biden & Secretary Mayorkas: Stop Burying Your Best Accomplishment on Immigrant Worker Rights

New video shows the Homeland Security Secretary boasting that he “shifted the paradigm in worksite enforcement.” But if a paradigm shifts and nobody hears about it, has it really shifted?

Biden’s Immigration Policy Threatens to Set Dangerous Global Precedent

While President Biden is shredding the asylum system in an effort to mollify political opponents who are exploiting a human rights crisis along the southern border, the British government is considering a cruel bill to deter refugees crossing the English Channel.

Biden Just Made a Strong Move on Labor and Immigrant Rights — Now He Needs to Tell the World

The Biden administration is being awfully quiet about a remarkable thing it just did — a game-changing decision that promises to make workplaces safer and fairer for all workers by protecting immigrants from the employers who abuse and exploit them.

Dear Mr. Biden: The Danger in El Paso Was at Walmart, Not Behind the Wall

President Biden went to El Paso on Sunday, where migrants and Latina residents are suffering the effects of injustice and xenophobia stoked by racist Republicans in Congress and demagogue Texas politicians — but instead of comforting the victims and survivors, and instead of highlighting the dangers of extremism, his photo op visit lent legitimacy to the white nationalists.

Background about the DALE Campaign

Since day one of the Biden Administration, NDLON day laborer centers and workers’ rights organizations called for immediate use of existing executive authority to protect immigrant workers – by stopping deportations and granting work authorization – for those who denounce workplace abuse, those who continued working through the pandemic and other disasters, and those who…

Alabama Factory Used Migrant Child Labor

A shameful display of child labor abuse was recently uncovered in an Alabama Factory, where Central and South American migrant children were not only being hired, but trained to withstand large workloads and long hours. The report by Reuters clearly shows why migrant protections for reporting labor abuse must be put in place by our…

How NYC Labor Centers Are Building Stronger Communities

How are New York’s Day Labor Centers helping to build stronger communities from the bottom up? The NYC Day Labor Coalition is a collaboration of 5 Day Labor Centers in all five boroughs – Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Staten Island – which was created in 2014 to improve the reach and efficacy of day…

May Day, The Struggle Continues!

Just three days ago, day laborers and worker centers across the country hosted vigils, marches, and other actions to remember fallen colleagues, loved ones and friends, in a moving nationwide commemoration of those who have died from work-related injuries, illness and abuse. Yesterday we honored the fallen, and today and on International Workers Day we…