Illegal laborers are viewed as essential to the economy and as vulnerable to wage theft, according to groups.
Texas Governor was also requested by the protesters from the Border Network for Human Rights and a number of other groups. Governor Abbott should stop using state laws like SB4 and the implementation of hundreds of condition National Guard troops to the frontier as part of Operation Lone Star to prevent pursuing these employees and other economic migrants crossing the Rio Grande.
” Texas is shooting itself in the foot by persecuting the construction workers, farmworkers, landscapers, cooks and other immigrant workers who pay nearly$ 2 billion in taxes and hold the state economy together”, said Fernando Garcia, executive director of BNHR. We’ll keep fighting for those workers ‘ rights.
SB4 was passed by the Texas Legislature last year, which forbids local governments from requiring officers to inquire about immigrants ‘ immigration status. Federal authorities have halted protection of SB4 until they determine if it is legal.
Abbott endorsed SB4 in response to what he perceives as an silence by the Biden presidency to enforce immigration laws in the wake of a years-long, historically unreliable rise in border crossings. The governor observed the second anniversary of the start of Operation Lone Star in March, which his office claims has resulted in 40, 400 legal arrests, 36, 100 misdemeanor charges, and the arrest of 469 million potentially fatal doses of fentanyl.
But on Wednesday, a group of men, women and children holding” No SB4″ evidence gathered at San Jacinto Plaza in Downtown El Paso. Related protests were taking place together in Houston and two South Texas places, according to Garcia.
” This nation was built by immigrants, by those who entered Ellis Island long ago, and by those who eventually arrived. We need ( immigration reform ) because even though they need us immigrant workers, they do n’t pay us the same, sometimes they do n’t pay us and threaten to call immigration on us”, he said.
The Pew Research Center put the unauthorized population in the U. S. at 10.5 million in delayed 2021 and said California and Texas had the highest amount of unauthorized non- people with 1.9 million and 1.6 million, both.
The U.S. Labor Department’s authorities have informed Border Report that the theft of immigrant workers ‘ compensation is real. In order to inform Mexican embassy employees about their rights and to immediately check pay extortion claims, the agency’s assistant area director in El Paso signed a memorandum of understanding with the department’s assistant district director in El Paso in August of 2022.
In El Paso, most wage- theft claims stem from non- payment of overtime in a variety of industries, most commonly those that are “labor intensive”, the department said, meaning individuals who work with their hands as opposed to office workers.
International Workers ‘ Day, also known as May Day, commemorates an 1886 general strike in Chicago demanding an 8- hour workday. Shortly after, violence broke out and caused the deaths of police officers and workers.
