Sanders was basically one of our only allies especially for low-skilled workers in 2007, said Ana Avendano, a former top immigration official at the AFL-CIO. He adamantly put his foot down and said these kinds of programs [allow] employers to bring in more and more vulnerable workers.
"The president does have the authority and the ability to ease the crisis on the ground while the legislative process continues to play out," Ana Avendano, director of immigration and community action at the AFL-CIO, said in an interview.
Date: Nov 27, 2013
Category: U.S.
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House votes to resume deporting young DREAM Act immigrants
, a leading supporter of the DREAM Act. Ana Avendano of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement that King and his allies are playing to "a dwindling base of anti-immigrant Republican primary voters. We hope and expect that the leadership of the Republican party will understand that this is not only abhorre
Date: Jun 06, 2013
Category: U.S.
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Orrin Hatch, Chuck Schumer reach deal on high-tech visa program
Whatever deal has been struck, AFL-CIO has not signed off, Ana Avendano, the assistant to the president and director of Immigration and Community Action at the AFL-CIO, said in an interview Tuesday morning.
"The beauty of this program is that it rises and falls with the economy," the AFL-CIO's Ana Avendano recently told CNN. "When the economy is booming, there will be more visas available for foreign workers. When it's not, there won't be, and that's something we've never seen in the United States befo
An AP report in the Huffington Post noted that, following a stalemate, talks between the two groups have resumed and negotiators are "back on the right track," according to Ana Avendano, identified as a lead AFL-CIO negotiator.
A proposal from the Gang of Eight that would divide the workers into three wage categories _ two of them beneath median wage _ was rejected by the AFL as insufficient, said Ana Avendano, assistant to the AFL-CIO president for immigration and community action. Avendano said the AFL proposed language
are going to have a hard time to go home during recess and explain to their constituents, especially in Florida and Arizona, why they are holding up one of the most important pieces of legislation to this community based on their greed of not paying poor people even median wages," said Ana Avendano