Queridas y queridos amigos, Nuestro trabajo realizado en los pasados meses verdaderamente ejemplifica nuestra visión sobre cómo lograr la justicia para los migrantes. Creemos que los derechos de los trabajadores migrantes necesitan estar incluidos dentro de la renegociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN / NAFTA) y estos derechos de los…
Dear Friends, Our work these past few months truly epitomizes our vision for how to achieve migrant justice. We believe that migrant workers’ rights need to be included in the renegotiated NAFTA and that migrants’ rights must be respected across borders. CDM has been planning – in Mexico and the US – a multi-level campaign…
El día de hoy, el Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. presentó la siguiente petición firmada por 98 personas y organizaciones dirigida a la Oficina del Representante de Comercio de los Estados Unidos para exigir que los derechos de las y los trabajadores migrantes se protejan en la renegociación del TLCAN. Las y los…
Today, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. submitted the following petition signed by 98 individuals and organizations to the Office of the United States Trade Representative to demand that migrant workers’ rights are protected in the NAFTA renegotiation. Signatories included migrant workers, and labor and migrant rights advocates across borders. Office of the United…
(Oakland, California) — Today, migrant worker leaders, advocates, and experts will appear at a hearing before the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) to demand that the California Labor Commissioner protect internationally recruited workers from recruitment abuses and human trafficking. The Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), the bill’s original sponsor, and Centro de…
El CDM denuncia el Acta de las y los Trabajadores Agrícolas del Representante Bob Goodlatte como una ley anti-inmigrante y anti-trabajador que exacerbaría la explotación sistémica de las y los trabajadores migrantes agrícolas que ya existe en el programa H-2A. Esta ley crearía un nuevo programa de trabajadores temporales con salarios más bajos, acceso limitado…
CDM denounces Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act) as anti-immigrant, anti-worker legislation that would exacerbate the systemic exploitation of migrant farmworkers already present in the H-2A program. The AG Act would create a new guestworker program with lower wages, limited access to justice, and fewer protections for migrant workers than current law. Existing…
Data collection, monitoring, and enforcement needed to address harassment, discrimination (Washington, DC) — Temporary labor migration programs in the United States systematically foster discrimination against women, according to a preview of research released today by Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Transnational Legal Clinic (TLC). The exploitation of…
El CDM está indignado por la decisión del Presidente Trump de terminar con la Acción Diferida para las y los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA), que otorga a las y los jóvenes inmigrantes indocumentados que llegaron como niños la oportunidad de vivir y trabajar en los Estados Unidos. Al terminar con este programa, el Presidente…
CDM is outraged by President Trump’s decision to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which grants young undocumented immigrants who arrived as children the opportunity to live and work in the United States. By ending this program, the President aims to separate families and deport hundreds of thousands of Dreamers — our nation’s best…