Migrant workers with H-2B visas have long faced an impossible—and fundamentally unjust—choice. When employers violate their rights, the law forces workers to decide whether to keep working for their designated employer or lose their visas and income. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had an opportunity to fix this problem. But it did not.…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2022 Media Contact: Melanie Stratton-Lopez; melanie@cdmigrante.org CDM denounces SCOTUS decision to halt Vaccination and Testing Requirement ETS for Large Employers We are appalled by the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Biden-Harris Administration’s vaccine-or-test rule. The rule would have required large employers to ensure that their employees were vaccinated…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2021 CONTACT: Mari Perales Sánchez | mariap@cdmigrante.org Judge Hanen’s Decision on DACA is a Continuance of Attacks on Immigrant Families – Permanent Legislative Protection and Strong Agency Accountability is Imperative Baltimore, MD – Texas Federal Judge Hanen has ruled to stop DACA approvals for new applicants. DACA…
CDC Expands Partnership with Migrant Workers’ Rights Organization on COVID-19 Campaign Coordinated Outreach Campaign Aims to Prevent Infectious Diseases among Workers in Protein Processing Industries BALTIMORE, MD – Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), a binational migrant rights organization based in the U.S. and Mexico, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 23, 2021 Contact: Evy Peña (evy@cdmigrante.org) Migrant Worker Women File First Complaint against the U.S. Government under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement MEXICO CITY, MEXICO — Today, migrant worker women and a binational coalition of civil society organizations filed the first complaint against the U.S. government under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2021 Contact: Sulma Guzman, sulma@cdmigrante.org Introduction of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act is Monumental BALTIMORE, MD — Last week, U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) reintroduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, H.R. 1537, a proposal that would provide immigration relief to millions of farmworkers in the…
For immediate release: March 1, 2021 Contact: Evy Peña, evy@cdmigrante.org Bracero 2.0 is not a humane response to MX-USA labor migration Today, President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met in a highly publicized meeting to discuss among other things a proposal for a labor migration program between the two…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2021 Contact: Sulma Guzmán, sulma@cdmigrante.org Centro de los Derechos del Migrante Applauds the Inclusion of Migrant Workers in President Biden’s Bold Immigration Bill BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — Today, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) introduced President Biden’s proposal — the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 — in…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 24, 2020 Contact: María Perales (mariap@cdmigrante.org) Evy Peña (evy@cdmigrante.org) BALTIMORE, MD– Today, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM), the American University Washington College of Law Immigrant Justice Clinic, and Georgetown University Law Center’s Federal Legislation Clinic have released, Breaking the Shell: How Maryland’s Migrant Crab Pickers Continue…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 30, 2020 Contact: María Perales (mariap@cdmigrante.org) Evy Peña (evy@cdmigrante.org) Atlanta, Georgia — Five Mexican workers recruited to work on temporary H-2B visas have filed a lawsuit against Atlanta-based construction company Precision 2000, its side-company Casa Properties, and the owners of these companies (“Defendants”). Juan Servando Garcia Robelo and four other workers…