Comprehensive Immigration Reform Will Benefit American Workers

Author: 
Adriana Kugler and Patrick Oakford
Date of Publication: 
September, 2013
Source Organization: 
Center for American Progress

This issue brief, "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Will Benefit American Workers," reviews the current state of the U.S. immigration system and explains how a "broken" system undermines immigrants' employment rights and subsequently harms American workers. Specifically, it looks at immigration enforcement in the workplace, how the system hurts immigrants' employment protections and how immigrants' lack of employment protections hurts all American workers. The brief then highlights how immigration reform, which legalizes the undocumented population and fixes our immigration system, would strengthen immigrants' employment rights and in turn provide Americans with safer workplaces with reference to S. 744, the Senate-approves immigration bill. 

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Citation: 

Kugler, A., Oakford, P. (2013). "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Will Benefit American Workers." Washington, D.C.: Center for American Progress. Retrieved from https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/KuglerEmploymentBrief-1.pdf

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