#Undocumented Workers

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Trump Must Hate Himself As User Of Illegal Aliens!

Caution: Don't Stand Under The "T" in Tower!

[reasonsforhope]

"California will begin paying for free legal help with immigration for undocumented farmworkers who are involved in state investigations of wage theft or other labor violations, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced this week.

The $4.5 million pilot program will provide qualifying farmworkers with referrals for legal help with their immigration status. 

Roughly half of California’s farmworker population is believed to be undocumented. Fear of deportation and difficulties finding jobs can discourage workers from filing labor complaints or serving as witnesses in cases alleging unsafe work temperatures, wage theft, or employer retaliation for unionizing, officials said...

Respecting immigrant rights

Farmworkers in labor investigations who qualify for the new state program will receive a direct referral to legal services organizations that already offer immigration services, such as the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County or the United Farm Workers Foundation, which spoke in support of the program. 

The free legal services workers could receive include case review, legal advice and representation by an attorney, according to Newsom’s office...

Deferred deportation

State officials said the pilot program aligns with a new Biden administration policy that makes it easier for undocumented workers who are victims of labor rights violations to request deferred action from deportation. Because the federal Department of Homeland Security can’t respond to all immigration violations, it exercises “prosecutorial discretion” to decide who to try to deport.

State officials said they won’t ask for workers’ immigration status, but noncitizens granted this deferred action may be eligible for work authorization.

This year, California labor department officials began supporting undocumented workers’ requests for prosecutorial discretion or deferred action from federal immigration officials, including when employers threaten workers with immigration enforcement to prevent workers from cooperating with state investigators. 

“The Department of Industrial Relations’ Labor Commissioner’s Office … was the first state agency to request deferred action from DHS for employees in an active investigation, and that request was successful,” Hickey said. “This is an important process for undocumented workers to be aware of.”"

-via CalMatters, July 21, 2023

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[tiggymalvern]

I am so sorry, but I saw the undocumented immigrants post you had, and these are the arguments I fight every holiday with my mostly Republican family, so if you are not a source, or don't know, my apologies.

But, can you explain this undocumented-means-no-benefits-yet-taxes-paid vs the mentality that undocumented means not paying taxes? If I could just grasp this, or see a documentary on it, maybe I can educate this season instead of pulling my hair?

Normally I google, but I must be using the wrong key words?

Not paying taxes while working in the US gets you sent to jail, for a very long time. (Unless you're an old rich white man with expensive lawyers like Donald Trump, which is an entirely different problem...) Getting caught as an undocumented immigrant gets you deported, which is preferable to a decade in a US jail. Undocumented immigrants are therefore strongly encouraged by a variety of immigrant-positive bodies to ensure they pay taxes.

As this website says: Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code states that the IRS is not authorized to release taxpayer information to other government agencies

The IRS is specifically prohibited by US law from sharing information on people who are paying taxes while not being legal residents. Undocumented people can safely pay taxes without fear of it leading to deportation.

Here's another website giving the same guidelines.

Of course, undocumented workers have none of the protections of legal citizens. They have no guarantee of minimum wage, sick pay, paid leave, or any of the other federal protections, because who are they going to complain to if they don't get them? They get no health insurance, which usually comes with a job in the US, because they don't have a social security number. So, yes, the majority of undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes, but getting none of the the benefits that come with being a legal resident.

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The Resilient Journey of Baldomero Orozco-Juarez: From Deportation to Advocacy

The Journey of Baldomero Orozco-Juarez Baldomero Orozco-Juarez found himself in a precarious situation while working at a poultry processing plant in Carthage, Mississippi. He was meticulously slicing chicken meat into tenders when immigration agents suddenly burst in, brandishing their weapons. In a state of panic, some of his coworkers attempted to escape, but there was no refuge in…

[roguehr]

The Old Form I-9 expires today! Here is what you as an employee need to know:

Your employer may be auditing the documents povided by new hires between March 2020- August 2023. This is a lawful request. If you were hired outside of that time frame, you should not be required to provide your documents again.

Your employer should NOT run e-verify (confirming your work eligibility with DHS) on you again. If you are fired because of e-verify results run during this audit- GET A LAWYER. You may have a case even if you are undocumented.

[feckcops]

The workers who say their migrant status has been ‘weaponized’ against them

“More than one million workers in California are undocumented, making up 6% of California’s workforce and contributing $3.7 bn towards the state’s tax revenue, according to a University of California, Merced, report released in March. They also play a crucial part in the labor force, filling one in 16 jobs, especially in manufacturing, food service, construction and agriculture. Yet these workers are not eligible for unemployment benefits, making it more likely that they’ll end up working in exploitative or high-risk environments.

“The UC Merced report found that undocumented migrants in California were eligible for $1,700 in state and federal assistance in the first year of the pandemic, compared with $35,000 for residents who were also US citizens. Immigrants made up 58% of pandemic-related deaths in California’s deadliest industries – agriculture, landscaping and food processing – between March and December 2020.

“The data is not broken down for undocumented migrants, but activists who work with them say they have been especially vulnerable – particularly women, whose Top 10 occupations in the US all involve in-person work, such as cleaning, childcare and hospitality work.”

[theasgardianmexican]

headcannon that jasper spoke fluent spanish even before meeting up with alice and the cullens

y'all don't think that man would've picked up on shit while spending a decade or so with maria??

[problemnyatic]

I would rather a hundred million people get free shit they don't deserve than one single person go without basic necessities.

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

so this is terrifying

[lyinginbedmon]

I once had someone try to say that a guy supporting sex workers was only doing it because he innately believed he deserved to have sexual access to women, and not only is that intensely backwards (if you want to ensure you retain that access, those people need to be as low and desperate as possible so they can't decline, not elevated to a state of equality with everyone else) but it completely skipped over why anyone stands with sex workers at all: The "There But For The Grace Of God" factor.

Yes there are people who go into the industry because they like it, but the majority are there because, like every other career, they need money to survive in Capitalism. And in the sex industry, it's frequently a desperate last option, due to a combination of social stigma and ease of access (ie. almost anyone can do it).

That desperate last option aspect means that you can be easily exploited, blackmailed, and abused with little recourse. Even in areas where sex work is legal, there's still the hurdle of getting over the stigma just to report such violations.

And it also means that if you criminalise it, you take away one of the most accessible sources of income in existence, which (somewhat ironically given the previous paragraph) will only ever harm some of the most vulnerable demographic groups of society.

Because when you have absolutely nothing else, when absolutely no-one will help you, sex work keeps food on the table. No-one benefits from a ban, except the people who want to hold power over those affected.

[insteading]

“There's to be a fuel and food drop in the Manor grounds, as the place most easily visible from the air in this snow. And Miss Greythorne is asking if everyone in the village would not like to move into the Manor, for the emergency. It will be crowded, of course, but warm. And comforting, perhaps. And Dr Armstrong will be there—he is already on his way, I believe.” “That's ambitious,” Mr Stanton said reflectively. “Almost feudal, you might say.” Merriman's eyes narrowed slightly. “But with no such intention.”

--Chapter 9, "The Coming of the Cold"

Mr Stanton values self-containment, self-reliance. He admires the decision to make space at the manor for “the people from the cottages,” but insists that the Stanton family home is sufficient to them: “I don't see any good reason for our trooping off to partake of the bounty of the Lady of the Manor.” (Will eventually forces the issue by manipulating the Walker into such an emotional state that he needs a doctor.)

“Cottages” here probably refers to small housing near the manor, often quite old and maybe not fully modernized, that were rented from the landowner. Renters might be manor staff who weren't required to stay in servants' quarters in the manor itself overnight. Or they might be raising livestock or farming land adjacent to the manor, supplying much of what they farmed to the manor itself and some measure of food for their own household. Especially if the housing was supplied as a benefit of the manor-serving job, there was a level of precarity in being a cottager that a householder would not experience: a householder could change jobs without risking the roof over their head.

Mr Stanton's wariness about accepting the invitation to the manor makes sense: the relationship between manor and cottagers was exploitive. At the same time, our beloved “huddling for warmth” trope has so much mileage because humans really do need other humans in times of stress and scarcity. Whatever the virtues of self-reliance, some problems are too big to weather on our own. The first thing we learn to do as babies, before we can walk or talk or feed ourselves, is to cry for help. Because it's fundamentally human to need help sometimes, even if it goes against what we've learned to value.

[yemme]

Florida...

They actually said they don't expect any homes built before 1994 to survive Hurricane Idalia. Your governor... senators, don't believe in climate change... I advise you if you have the money to build your home like these guys did. I'll never forget they were still standing after a Category 5. Everyone be safe.