The
AFL-CIO was one of the main supporters of employer sanctions back in 1986. It
only took 13 years for the labor federation to learn its lesson: in February
2000 it officially called for the elimination of the policy.
By
David L. Wilson, MR Online
September
13, 2017
It’s
now more than three decades since Congress created employer sanctions, a
feature of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act that imposes fines on
employers who hire undocumented workers. The measure’s proponents said the
sanctions would slow unauthorized immigration by removing the “job magnet”
thought to be drawing migrants to the United States. The House Education and
Labor Committee wrote at the time that by reducing the number of undocumented
workers the measure would limit “the depressing effect on working conditions
caused by their employment.”
If
that was the goal, employer sanctions have been a spectacular failure.[…]
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