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When immigration status becomes workplace leverage

I am documented but my coworkers are not and our boss threatens to call immigration when anyone complains about working conditions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mixed-status workplaces enable employers to use deportation threats as tools of labor control against all workers.

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