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To: U.S. Employers
Call on employers to protect workers and stand against destructive immigration policies
Destructive immigration policies are taking a toll on workers and the U.S. economy as a whole. Immigrants are afraid to go to work. Labor shortages are impacting the entire workforce. Communities are being ripped apart.
Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell stated that the current immigration crackdown and restrictive border policies are causing a slowdown in the American economy. The White House’s policies are causing wages to decrease in sectors where immigrant workers usually contribute to above-average wage growth. Many employers, especially in healthcare, childcare, and construction, are struggling to find workers.
While workers and the economy suffer, many employers in the U.S. are exploiting the system on both sides. Big corporations take advantage of the country’s broken immigration system and exploit workers, especially undocumented immigrants. This vicious cycle and the intensifying violence against immigrants calls for action.
Executives should no longer sit back and exploit the laws and exploit working people (all while they face no accountability for breaking labor laws). Employers and their companies have an interest in taking action now to combat mass deportations — so they have the workforce they need and a healthy economy. In taking action, employers will also protect workers, working conditions, and stand for immigrant justice.
Why is this important?
ICE sweeping through neighborhoods across the country are making immigrants, those who are undocumented and those with legal status, afraid to go to work. Deportations are tearing families apart and having a serious, negative impact on labor in America and the U.S. economy.
Critical sectors are losing workers. Wages in key industries are falling. If carried to completion, mass deportations will destroy millions of jobs for both immigrants and U.S.-born workers. Job losses will impact every state, every community, every family, every worker, and the entire U.S. economy. Employers large and small need to take a stand for immigrant workers and the entire labor force.
Sign the petition: Call on U.S. employers to protect workers and stand against the violent immigration crackdown.
