The Time is Now for Immigration Reform

The AFL-CIO Executive Council this week reaffirmed its commitment to working on a pathway to citizenship for 11 million aspiring Americans.

Leaders advocate keeping families together and holding employers accountable for their hiring practices. Their framework for comprehensive immigration reform also proposes a data-driven approach to immigration that would determine future visas based on labor market needs, as well as the improvement — not expansion — of guest worker visa programs that too often deny basic civil rights to immigrant workers.

Read the full statement here.