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Formerly the Mid-South Interfaith Network for Economic Justice     

Faithfully seeking justice with workers                                                         

   Immigrant Rights are Worker Rights: Learn and Act

  There is no denying that the immigration system in the United States is broken.
   The legal status of immigrant workers must be addressed, with 12 million undocumented
   people living and working here. Without legal status, immigrant workers are victims
   of every kind of labor abuse and cannot protect their rights without fear of deportation.
   The continuation of a debased class of workers, whom unscrupulous employers can
   and do underpay, overwork, and exploit in legal and illegal ways also contributes to
   a downward push on wages and working conditions for all workers in the United States.

    The answer is comprehensive reform that protects the rights of all workers. A package must
    include:
    - a plan to regularize the status of most undocumented workers in the U.S.
    - halting deportations that separate parents from children and husbands from wives
    - strong enforcement of all employment and labor laws
    - elimination of guest worker programs - programs that bring in temporary workers with few
      or no rights - unless they include full workplace protections or provide a path to
      permanent residency and citizenship.
    - addressing structural issues created by trade and aid policies driving current immigration.

    Why is immigration to the U.S. increasing?

    How are justice for workers and immigrants' rights connected?

    What does responsible immigration reform look like?

   Learn about the 2003 Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride

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