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A New "U": Organizing Victims And Protecting Immigrant Workers, Leticia M. Saucedo
A New "U": Organizing Victims And Protecting Immigrant Workers, Leticia M. Saucedo
University of Richmond Law Review
This article explores the viability and potential effectiveness of immigration law's U visa to contribute to the protection of groups of workers in substandard and dangerous workplaces. Immigration law has increasingly become an obstacle to the enforcement of employment and labor law to protect immigrant workers.Moreover, employment and labor law, with their individual rights frameworks, have proven blunt instruments in eradicating the type of subordinating, sometimes slave-like conditions of immi-grant workers, especially those in low-wage industries. The federal government recently issued long-awaited regulations govern-ing U nonimmigrant visas for certain crime victims. Several of the enumerated eligible crimes in the U …
The Golden Cage: How Immigration Law Turns Foreign Women Into Involuntary Housewives, Magdalena Bragun
The Golden Cage: How Immigration Law Turns Foreign Women Into Involuntary Housewives, Magdalena Bragun
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment begins with a presentation of the general principles of immigration law, introducing the reader to concepts such as immigrant and nonimmigrant status, derivative status, and adjustment of status. Part III offers a more detailed presentation of the H status, emphasizing H-1B classification and describing specific regulations that are pertinent to the subsequent discussion of the spousal employment authorization problem. Part IV presents five arguments why spouses of foreign professionals should be allowed to work, considering issues such as spousal dependency, equal treatment, the competitiveness of the United States in the global search for talent, and tax benefits.