Guide to Political Revolution, by Bernie Sanders: on Immigration


Give undocumented workers legal protections

Exploitation of undocumented workers is certainly not limited to the agricultural sector. The Chicago doll manufacturer Ty Inc. used layers of shadowy labor brokers to find low-wage workers, many of them undocumented, for its factories. Since the workers weren't direct employees of the company, Ty had plausible deniability about their immigration status.

Walmart has employed undocumented workers to clean its stores. Tyson Foods has used them to process chickens, amid many violations of laws on workplace conditions and allegations of human smuggling.

We must extend labor protections to undocumented workers. If we start giving undocumented workers legal protections, we can slow down the "race to the bottom." But that would affect big business's bottom line, and therein lies the rub.

Source: Guide to Political Revolution, by Bernie Sanders, p.183-4 Aug 29, 2017

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