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Safeguarding Employment For U.S. Workers: Do Undocumenteds Take Away Jobs?, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
Safeguarding Employment For U.S. Workers: Do Undocumenteds Take Away Jobs?, Stephen A. Rosenbaum
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For more than five years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (hereinafter, INS) has been stymied in its efforts to implement a rule prohibiting aliens from working while out on bond pending deportation or exclusion. Like defendants awaiting trial in the criminal justice system, aliens charged with violating U.S. immigration laws are typically allowed to post bond pending a hearing on the merits. The U.S. Attorney General has the authority to prescribe conditions governing an alien's release under bond, a period that could take a year or more. From 1973 to 1983, INS regulations authorized District Directors, with approval from the …