Construction worksite-safety advocates are concerned that a longstanding Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aimed at encouraging undocumented workers to report unsafe conditions could become a casualty of the anti-immigrant positions President-elect Donald Trump took during his campaign.
He pledged to cut off all Federal funding to sanctuary cities like New York that historically welcomed law-abiding undocumented immigrants. Mr. Trump initially called for the deportation of all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. Facing widespread criticism, he then dialed back on some of that rhetoric but is still calling for the forced deportation of at least two million people who have broken laws other than the ones pertaining to immigration. That has actually been the policy of the Obama Administration, but minus the strident rhetoric.
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