Immigration

Immigration Raid Alert

The current political climate has birthed more aggressive workplace enforcement actions and raids targeting immigrant workers and their families. Here is the AFL-CIO Defend & Resist Toolkit along with other resources to help protect workers and their families from future actions from this administration. 

Read the AFL-CIO Defend and Resist Toolkit

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Immigrant Rights Hotlines:

Austin
Línea de Defensa (512) 270-1515

Dallas
Force Immigration Rights & Empowerment (469) 778-4979

Houston
1-833-HOU-IMMI

Since our nation’s founding, immigrants and refugees have enriched the fabric of our communities, our workforce and our labor movement. Like it was for generations of immigrants before, the labor movement is the natural home for new immigrants struggling to achieve economic security and win social justice, and our commitment to building an immigration system that represents the needs and interests of all working people is fierce and unwavering.

The only way to stop the race to the bottom in wages and standards is for working people of all races, religions and immigration status to stand together and demand an end to policies that put profits over people. The entire workforce suffers when millions struggle to support their families without a way to speak up on the job, and ramping up fear in our workplaces only serves to increase exploitation. Instead of deporting immigrants, we need to ensure that all working people have rights on the job and are able to exercise them without fear of retaliation. Enacting meaningful immigration reform is critical to our long-term efforts to lift labor standards and empower workers, and the labor movement will continue to stand in solidarity with all working people.