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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Members of the Migrant Defense Committee (“Comité”), a group of migrant leaders and their families supported by Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), gathered for their National Meeting. They were convened by the Regional Comité of Chapulhuacán, Hidalgo, Mexico, and issued the following statement: “We demand that our voices be heard in the…