How the ICE Raids and Crackdowns on Anti-Genocide Speech Are A Threat to All American Workers
David Huerta, president of SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West, was injured and then arrested while documenting a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Friday. He is now facing a felony charge of conspiracy to impede an officer with the the Los Angeles native's detention the latest example of how organized labor is being hit hard from the raids by masked ICE agents.
Not only is the Trump administration not going after the employers of undocumented labor, but it is instead targeting union members who were legally living and working in the US. Team Trump is doing so by cancelling humanitarian parole, revoking the visas of many graduate student union members, and other ICE actions that target individuals in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong skin color and potentially the wrong outlook on capital-labor relations.
Unions are increasingly sounding the alarm that the ICE agents snatching people off the street is part of the administration's wider crackdown on organized labor.....
Larger Plan at Work
While militarized ICE agents sweeping into communities across the country might appease some of Trump's MAGA supporters and provide the illusion of doing something about the exploitation of foreign workers, a closer look shows that it is part of a coordinated attack on all of labor.
How so? Let's start with Donald himself and go from there.
Trump's businesses rely on and continue to seek H-2B non-agricultural "guest" workers. A crucial difference between the H-2B and H-2A—covering agricultural workers—and individuals who worked in the US under temporary protected status or humanitarian parole is that the latter two categories didn't have their ability to stay in the country legally tied to their work.
That made them less exploitable. They were free to change jobs and unionize.
Guest workers, on the other hand, are loved by Trump and many employers because they are basically indentured servants. Even the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security "acknowledge that H-2B workers face structural disincentives to reporting or leaving abusive conditions, and often lack power to exercise their rights in the face of exploitative employment situations."....
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