HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Employer’s sanctions follows our country’s long history of labor and immigration laws that function to: criminalize a group of workers and create an underclass of workers-divide working people- and depress working conditions for all workers.

For more, read “Criminalizing Work and Non-Work: The Disciplining of Immigrant and African-American Workers” by CUNY Law Professor Shirley Lung; and “Prohibiting the Employment of Unauthorized Immigrants: The Experiment Fails” by Yale Law Professor Michael J. Wishnie.

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