Sentences with phrase «by undocumented workers»

Pew Research Center estimates put the proportion of construction jobs now held by undocumented workers at 14 percent.

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On its website, the White House says that by 2023, the U. S. economy will lose some $ 80 billion in economic output by not allowing a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented workers.

Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visible in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker... Consistency means we can't have it both ways» (quoted by Mark Shield on CNN.com, May 7).

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

Recall that one of the earliest walls Gov. Eliot Spitzer ran head - long into was a proposal to allow undocumented workers receive drivers» licenses issued by the state, a move that was vehemently opposed by county clerks and became a campaign issue for Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic nomination for president.

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Hawkins» platform (http://www.howiehawkins.org/issues) outlines numerous proposals on worker and immigrants rights, including the NY Dream Act; Drivers Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants; and expansion of the Liberty Defense Project by increasing funding for legal services to immigrants to $ 20 million.

And the WFP endorses the Dream Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented workers and has been embraced by Cuomo.

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He added that undocumented workers can't be legally employed in the state to begin with and he questioned the political push by Democratic lawmakers for the policy.

The Department of Buildings will not collect personal information from undocumented construction workers despite a new law that will require officials to keep track of safety training completed by laborers.

Moises is traveling by foot with a group of undocumented workers across a desolate strip of the border between Mexico and the United States, seeking a new life in the north.

The final chapter, Living Labor (2013), which was produced for the artist's solo exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and will be shown at the Palais de Tokyo and Institut français» off - site exhibition in Chicago, curated by Katell Jaffrès and entitled Singing Stones, is sited in New York, where five undocumented workers tell of exploitative working conditions, indignity, and invisibility in the United States.

We have provided legal counsel to foreign manufacturers in contract disputes as well as undocumented workers exploited by unscrupulous employers.

«Several of these companies have found a niche market that may include undocumented workers who are, by law, not allowed to get a driver's license,» Moraga says.

Some banks are expanding lending opportunities to undocumented workers by issuing tax ID mortgages, loans that target borrowers who lack conventional identification.