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  The workers? Yes if they have the opportunity and access. Immigration forms are only in English, must be perfect, and have very large application fees ($800+ per person but varies by app)
  People want to be legal. They already pay taxes. There is no opportunity currently for someone to become legal if they came here and overstayed a visa or didn't apply for asylum (court case and ongoing costs are enormous. My friends case is currently sitting at $18k in two years time)
  Asylum cases that are rejected have no follow up opportunity. 
  The US has no motivation to improve the current immigration system. Multiple corporations depend on the funding and labor provided by imprisoning undocumented people. Fun fact, these corporations are offshore entities and pay no tax. Look up GEO Group and CoreCivic REITs
context: Things are looking rough for meatpacking and corporate agriculture.  No more calling ICE on your employees right before payday? >
  
  That's cool but let's also make it easier to sue the employers and then lock their asses in prison. >
  
  From outside the country? After breaking some immigration law? With potentially some family afraid of retaliation still in the US? Good luck paying US lawyers if you had to accept a low-wage job in one of these plants.
  NGOs can make a strong case, but people alone probably have other more urgent things to chase. >
  
  Uh oh, I know some GOP handlers that will be very disappointed in this news. >
  
  Largest employer of exploited migrant workers? The Trump Organization. >
  
  And Twitter. >
  
  Now they should create protection for them from being exploited by wannabe fascists for publicity stunts. >
  
  
  "Unscrupulous employers who prey on the vulnerability of noncitizen workers harm all workers and disadvantage businesses who play by the rules," Mayorkas added. "We will hold these predatory actors accountable by encouraging all workers to assert their rights, report violations they have suffered or observed, and cooperate in labor standards investigations."
  
  It’s a good blow against the evil thirst for cheap labor that this country originally abducted Africans to slake.
  I fully expect conservatives to rage and bluster over this bc it contradicts the founding spirit of this settler colonial state: protecting the workers at the expense of business owners. >
  
  Will they actually use it though?