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Trump’s ‘Immployment’ Law Agenda: Intensifying Employment-Based Enforcement and Un-authorizing the Authorized

dc.contributor.authorGriffith, Kati L.
dc.contributor.authorGleeson, Shannon
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T17:15:58Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T17:15:58Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-01
dc.description.abstractThis article considers President Trump’s immigration efforts through an immployment law lens. Immployment is a conceptual frame that reminds us to consider (1) immigration policy’s impacts on employers and the employment-based rights of workers, and (2) employment and labor law’s impacts on immigration policy. It draws from available enforcement data to argue that Trump’s regime is intensifying the use of workplace-based immigration enforcement tools such as audits of employer records and arrests of workers at their place of work. While his predecessors used these tools too, Trump is simultaneously pursuing both high profile worker arrests and bureaucratic audits as key tools of a more aggressive immigration enforcement strategy. The Trump administration is also deviating from his predecessors by un-authorizing large groups of authorized workers. The article focuses its attention primarily on one such targeted group, workers with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), who may soon lose their authorization. It also uses interviews with two dozen immigrant worker advocates in the New York City metropolitan area to convey the ways that the threat of workplace-based immigration enforcement and unauthorization efforts are consequential for workers and the government compliance and benefits regimes that rely on voluntary participation of immigrant workers.
dc.description.legacydownloadsGriffith28_Trumps_Immployment_Law_Agenda.pdf: 61 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020.
dc.identifier.other16372317
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/75139
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © Southwestern Law School. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectlegal status
dc.subjectpolicy
dc.subjectenforcement
dc.subjectTemporary Protected Status
dc.subjectTPS
dc.titleTrump’s ‘Immployment’ Law Agenda: Intensifying Employment-Based Enforcement and Un-authorizing the Authorized
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationGriffith, Kati L.: kategriffith@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationGleeson, Shannon: smg338@cornell.edu Cornell University

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