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Help Wanted: Looking For A Visa System The Promotes The U.S. Economy And National Security, Jonathan G. Goodrich Mar 2008

Help Wanted: Looking For A Visa System The Promotes The U.S. Economy And National Security, Jonathan G. Goodrich

University of Richmond Law Review

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Save America: Stop Illegal Immigration, Hon. Virgil H. Goode Jr. Mar 2008

Save America: Stop Illegal Immigration, Hon. Virgil H. Goode Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

Security is an overriding issue confronting the United States, and if we want enhanced security, illegal immigration must be stopped. In fact, illegal immigration is an addiction that the United States must break, or it will break the United States.


A New "U": Organizing Victims And Protecting Immigrant Workers, Leticia M. Saucedo Mar 2008

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 …