My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
Nancy Lofholm, Dec. 29, 2016 - "In popular belief, undocumented workers steal someone else's identification and use false IDs so they can get jobs. But new research by University of Colorado Denver anthropology professor Sarah Horton shows those workers are more commonly the victims of identity crimes. The perpetrators are their employers.
Horton's study, published in December in the Political and Legal Anthropology Review,found that some employers use a variety of methods to make it appear they are hiring legal workers. They "loan" undocumented workers the identification of legal workers. They "mask" undocumented status with invented documents. And then, the employers reap the rewards from these practices.
Horton found that some work supervisors give the identification of friends or family members to undocumented workers, allowing those friends or family members to gain the unemployment and retirement benefits for someone else's labor. Employer-provided false or borrowed IDs also allow employers to sidestep labor laws and hide violations."