A federal jury in an SPLC case today awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to five Indian guest workers who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who lured hundreds of workers to a Mississippi shipyard with false promises of permanent U.S. residency.
A federal judge’s decision this week to temporarily block the Obama administration’s executive order on immigration stalls critical humanitarian relief that is needed until comprehensive immigration reform is passed by Congress, the SPLC announced.
Opening arguments begin today in a federal lawsuit brought by the SPLC on behalf of guest workers from India who were lured to a Mississippi shipyard by false promises of permanent U.S. residency only to find themselves forced into servitude and living under guard in an overcrowded, unsanitary labor camp.
A federal appeals court ruling today effectively closed a regulatory loophole that has depressed wages for foreign workers employed under the H-2B guest worker program as well as domestic workers in those industries.
El Presidente Obama ha puesto el foco en proveer una medida de seguridad para las familias inmigrantes mientras el Congreso sigue debatiendo reformas.
President Obama has taken a commonsense approach to provide a measure of security to immigrant families as Congress continues to debate reform.
Alabama has agreed that it will not publish a list naming immigrants allegedly “unlawfully present” in the state. The settlement agreement blocks the final provision of the state’s harsh anti-immigrant law that the SPLC challenged in court.
Gulf Coast seafood company R&A Oysters failed to properly pay guest workers it recruited to the United States on temporary H-2B work visas.
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit in 2014 on behalf of a group of migrant workers the company hired to shuck and process...
An SPLC community advocates tells of a young immigrant whose dream of becoming a neurosurgeon is a step closer to reality.
An SPLC report found widespread disillusionment among foreign students who felt deceived and exploited by recruiters and employers.
