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The Labour Movements Solution to Illegal Immigration
Spring 2009
Volume 39
Issue 1
There is no doubt that our current immigration system is broken. The current system is a blueprint for exploitation of workers, feeds a multimillion dollar criminal enterprise at the U.S.-Mexico border, and has failed to control illegal immigration. This failed immigration system has created a two-tiered society that is driving down wages and compromising labor standards to the detriment of all workers. There are more than 8 million undocumented workers in the U.S. These workers have practically no social safety net and are not protected by U.S. labor laws. All workers will continue to suffer as long as this two-tiered system exists, because low-road employers have a pool of workers who are too scared to complain about low wages, dangerous working conditions, a lack of benefits, and other inequitable and problematic workplace standards, and this drives standards down for all workers.
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