According to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, undocumented workers have very little impact on wages.
Though this study was conducted in Georgia, do you feel the results would be similar in South Carolina? Have you seen a direct link between wage rates and undocumented employees in our state?
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What’s the difference? Other than a constant nagging fear of being deported, not much. Oprah.com has a piece from the April 2012 edition of O Magazine that provides a lot of insight into how and why one woman found her family living illegally in the United States. With no job prospects in Mexico, her husband came to the US as a tourist, found a job and stayed. “Anna” stayed behind in Mexico. She brought the kids to see their Dad whenever she could. One day, her rights to travel to the US as a tourist were revoked because of a cousin’s unpaid medical bill. The family faced a decision.
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The National Immigration Law Center today announced that their continuing fight in Alabama succeeded in blocking enforcement of two more provisions of Alabama’s state immigration law. A US Court of Appeals ruled that one provision that made it illegal for elected officials to have any contact with undocumented immigrants and another that made contracts with undocumented immigrants unenforceable were unconstitutional.
The National Immigration Law Center and other national and state groups partnered with the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center to successfully challenge South Carolina’s anti-immigration legislation.
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