Statement from US Civil Society Participants During the UN Stocktaking Meeting on the Global Compact for Migration

US government withdrawal from Global Compact for Migration process abandons commitments and global responsibility Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – December 4, 2017 – The decision by the US government to withdraw from the negotiating process on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration abandons commitments made by the US government in the New York Declaration for…

Statement from US Civil Society Participants During the UN Stocktaking Meeting on the Global Compact for Migration

US government withdrawal from Global Compact for Migration process abandons commitments and global responsibility   Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – December 4, 2017 – The decision by the US government to withdraw from the negotiating process on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration abandons commitments made by the US government in the New York…

CDM Denounces Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s AG Act as an Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Worker Proposal

CDM is disgusted that the House Judiciary Committee approved Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s exploitative Agricultural Guestworker Act (AG Act), an anti-immigrant, anti-worker proposal that would further increase the vulnerability of farmworkers in the United States. The AG Act aims to create a new H-2C guestworker program that would slash wages, limit access to justice, and weaken…

October 2017 Newsletter

Dear Friends, Thank you for your solidarity and good wishes following the September 19 earthquake in Mexico City. Our team is safe and so grateful for your support. Three-City Tour to Launch Our New Report on Gender Inequality We launched our new report! “Engendering Exploitation: Gender Inequality in U.S. Labor Migration Programs” details the deeply entrenched gender…

September 2017 Newsletter

Dear friends, This Labor Day, we are celebrating our anniversary in the most wonderful way: our team is in San Luis Potosi wrapping up the National Meeting of CDM’s Migrant Defense Committee (Comité de Defensa del Migrante) with courageous migrant worker leaders from all over Mexico. Some of these workers, such as Adelaido Garcia Perez…

July 2017 Newsletter

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…

Migrant Workers, Advocates and Organizations to Trump Administration: Protect Migrant Workers in the NAFTA Renegotiation

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…