Sentences with phrase «undocumented workers who»

«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.

El Otro Lado focuses on a group of undocumented workers who had immigrated from Mexico to work in Arizona.

The idea was to make it easy for people who lost their documents in the storm to get work — but in effect, the law also allowed companies to hire undocumented workers who didn't have papers at all.

Mahoma, an undocumented worker who formed a union with his colleagues, delivers a powerful line arguing for his right to recognition: «I am a citizen because my conscience grew up here.»

Not exact matches

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).

Or the Roman Catholic nun who consistently and passionately speaks of the sacredness of the lives of those who are undocumented workers living in Arizona.

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.

Relief workers who help in Latino neighborhoods say many of their intended recipients are undocumented immigrants, who worry that applying to food banks or other seemingly official institutions might result in deportation.

Grimm, who is accused of hiring undocumented workers and paying them in cash under the table, among other crimes, is scheduled to stand trial in February.

Trump employed 200 undocumented Polish workers who were paid as little as $ 4 an hour to demolish the department store where Trump Tower now stands, according to the documents.

Morton said he's glad that the government is cracking down on the employers who harbored the undocumented workers and profited from their labor, but also frustrated that the situation even exists.

Michael Grimm: A felon who has admitted to hiring undocumented workers, tax evasion and lying under oath, is running for a congressional seat in New York.

The filmmakers cunningly reconstitute supporting characters from Twain's novels, so that the slave Jim is now an undocumented worker named Jorge (Daniel Edward Mora), while the fearsome Injun Joe (Stephen Lang, continuing his impressive evolution into this generation's Warren Oates) has become a psycho paleface who assumed Native American attire and nomenclature because he «identifies with the culture and aesthetic.»

More workers started creating homes in the United States, and now we're seeing a growth of a large group of undocumented children who are coming of age.

Río also expressed concern about how the system can be truly useful to undocumented residents in Los Angeles and workers who have to carry tools and equipment to their jobs.

Undocumented immigrants who are injured on the job in Indiana are entitled to receive workers» compensation benefits under state law.

Some are undocumented, but some are just Californians who have fallen through the cracks for one reason or another — street people, migrant workers, people between health plans, teenagers who are sexually active and afraid their parents will find out if they seek birth control from their family doctor.

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