EPI’s Daniel Costa writes that the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will hurt not only the 800,000 young immigrants targeted but the U.S. workers toiling beside them. Once DACA recipients lose their work authorization, the threat of deportation will render them “effectively…unable to complain when they are paid below the minimum wage, aren’t paid for overtime hours, or when their employer subjects them to unsafe conditions at the workplace,” Costa notes. This reduces the bargaining power of Americans who work alongside unauthorized workers. If President Trump were serious about improving the lives of working people, he would not force these young workers out of the formal, regulated labor market. Read this article » |
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