Secretary of Labor urges immigration overhaul.
May 5, 2021
Late last week, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh virtually joined the “We Are Home” campaign, advocates, and immigrant workers to urge Congress to act on creating a pathway to citizenship for workers in the United States. He also urged for changes to the H-2A guest worker program. Furthermore, he said he would push for an immigration bill pass in the Senate and that he wanted to make sure that workers were protected regardless of status, along with establishing a pathway to citizenship, as well as improvements for guest worker programs. At the present time, the U.S. Citizenship Act has been introduced in both the House and Senate, but lawmakers have not moved on to the bill.