SPLC testifies before Senate panel about guest worker program
The Southern Poverty Law Center offered testimony to a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill today about the abuses and failures within the nation’s H-2B guest worker program.
SPLC Staff Attorney Meredith Stewart testified before the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest about the systematic exploitation guest workers face within this poorly regulated program, which employers have used as a source of cheap labor that undercuts U.S. workers. Stewart also offered recommendations for reform.
Her testimony can be read here and below.
