Recently announced guidelines from the Biden administration won’t just help better protect undocumented workers from employer retaliation, the policy could also stand to “undermine” anti-immigrant arguments that nativist Republicans have commonly used to divide, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent argues.
First, there’s the policy on its face. Under the administration’s plan, undocumented workerswho witness or are themselves victims of labor-related abuses can now more efficiently access crucial protections against deportation. But then there are also the effects the guidelines could have on anti-immigrant forces. We previously noted how Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas said the policy could benefit all workers by reining in abusive employers. But it also “creates an awkward political situation for the anti-immigrant right,” Sargent writes.
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