Process enhancements for supporting labor enforcement investigations
January 17, 2023
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that noncitizen workers who are victims of, or witnesses to, the violation of labor rights, can now access a streamlined and expedited deferred action request process. Deferred action provides protection to noncitizen workers from threats of immigration-related retaliation from exploitative employers. This process will improve the agency’s practice of using its discretionary authority to consider labor and employment agency-related requests for deferred action on a case-by-case basis.
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