Executive Council Statement
Organize, Naturalize and Mobilize for Just Immigration
… The labor movement has long fought to correct the imbalance of power within our immigration system in order to build an economy that works for working people. … control and workplace verification; and structural reforms to our employment-based visa system to prevent indentured work and base future entry levels on the real needs of the labor market. These carefully balanced components promote a … rights on the job and to prevent immigration enforcement actions from being used as a tool to deny workers their legal right to organize. We also firmly assert the need to maintain a firewall between local law enforcement and federal …