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2. Anti-Coolie Act - Wikipedia

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   On February 19, 1862, the 37th United States Congress passed An Act to Prohibit the "Coolie Trade" by American Citizens in American Vessels. The act, which would be called the Anti-Coolie Act of 1862 in short, was passed by the California State Legislature in an attempt to appease rising anger among white laborers about salary competition created by the influx of Chinese immigrants at the ...

3. Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

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   The Sweatshop Watch group offered social and legal services to the Thai workers in specific, and pushed to meet with the workers who were in INS Detention Centers, to make them aware of their legal rights as an immigrant. The members of this group mobilized to find the Thai workers food, clothing, jobs, housing, and medical care.

4. Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant ...

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   Title IV of the STRIVE Act creates two programs for foreign workers to achieve temporary and permanent citizenship. H-2C Worker Visa Program. The Worker Visa Program would establish a new H-2C visa for future immigrant workers and their families. The temporary visa would be valid for three years and renewable one-time for an additional three years.

5. California governor would slash 10,000 vacant state jobs to ...

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   California has a budget deficit of $27.6 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday — a gap so wide that he's proposing cutting 10,000 vacant state jobs and suspending some widely used business ...

6. Migrant worker - Wikipedia

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   A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have an intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. [1] In Ghana, a migrant hawker carries colorful textiles on his head for sale. Migrant workers who work outside their home country are ...

7. American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act - Wikipedia

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   In summary, the provisions of AC21 did the following: They helped increase the efficiency of utilization both of the H-1B status for temporary skilled workers (i.e., "non-immigrant workers") acquired by filing Form I-129, as well as the employment-based immigrant categories for immigration (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3, acquired through Form I-140), thereby increasing the number of people who at a ...