January 27, 2024 Submitted through: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/DOS-2023-0025-0001 Re: Exchange Visitor Program–Au Pair, Doc. No. DOS-2023-0025-0001, 88 Fed. Reg. 74071, RIN 1400–AF12 (October 29, 2023) Dear Director Ward: Centro de los Derechos de Migrante, Inc. (CDM) writes to provide input on the Department of State’s proposed rules for the au pair program. While we applaud…
Atlanta, GA – Migrant workers with TN visas met today with representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Mexican Consulate in Atlanta to ask for justice and strengthened labor protections for migrant professionals working in the United States with TN visas. The gathering was part of The Future of [Guest]work: Building TN Worker Power, a three-day…
November 20, 2023 Submitted through: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/USCIS-2023-0012-0001 To: Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Re: Modernizing H-2 Program Requirements, Oversight, and Worker Protections, Doc. No. USCIS-2023-0012-0001, 88 Fed. Reg. 65040 (September 20, 2023) Dear Secretary Mayorkas and Chief Nimick: Centro de los Derechos de Migrante, Inc. (CDM) writes in support of key changes…
Doc. No. ETA-2023-0003 Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States November 14, 2023 Dear Acting Secretary Su: Centro de los Derechos de Migrante, Inc. (CDM) supports the changes in the Department of Labor’s proposed rule “Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States.” The proposed changes…
Engracia Hernández-García was employed as a domestic worker in the United States for a period of seven years while on a B-1 visa. In 2021, Engracia brought a lawsuit against her former employers alleging violations of state and federal laws. The defendants denied (and continue to deny) the facts and liability as alleged by Ms.…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2023 Contact: Francisco Díaz Pinelo francisco@cdmigrante.org Centro de los Derechos del Migrante receives the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Washington D.C., Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), a Baltimore-based migrant workers’ rights organization, received the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts…
On December 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) published a temporary final rule (“TFR”) confirming it will once again expand a notoriously abusive work visa program. DHS will issue 64,716 supplemental visas—20,000 to people from Haiti and Northern Central American countries, and just under 45,000 to people who have received H-2B visas…
Dear Governor Newsom, We write to urge you to sign AB 364 into law. This legislation provides necessary protections for the hundreds of thousands of internationally recruited workers who perform work essential to California’s economy. AB 364 requires labor recruiters that bring workers to California from abroad to register with the State and abide by…
You’ve probably seen the news: it looks like the U.S. Supreme Court is about to eviscerate the right to an abortion—a constitutional right that has been protected for half a century. But it’s important to know that you still have the right to an abortion, although many barriers limit access to this right. Three things…
The Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has issued new guidance which better protects workers’ rights in the H-2B program. Directed at WHD’s field investigators, who are tasked with investigating cases at the local level, this new and updated guidance addresses two widespread abuses that workers, advocates, and CDM have raised—misclassifying jobs…