Chicago Tribune

Advocates champion job permits for immigrant workers who report labor abuse but worry about program’s future

For most of his life in the United States, Pedro Manzanares, 53, had lived a discreet life in Chicago’s Little Village, one of the city’s vibrant Mexican immigrant neighborhoods. He had declined to ...
Yahoo

She may have a full ride to Harvard, but as an undocumented immigrant without a job permit, her future is uncertain

CHICAGO — Simone Peña found out she had been accepted to Harvard with a full scholarship after school one day while she was getting ready to go clean houses with her parents, as she did most evenings ...
AOL

As asylum-seekers struggle while waiting for work permits, Chicago businesses can’t fill jobs

Huberth Espinoza, 65, sat on a bench outside the 5th District police station in Pullman on a Wednesday in late June, waiting to be picked up for work. An asylum-seeker from Venezuela, Espinoza said he ...
New York Post

Hochul says there’s 32,000 jobs open for migrants — but feds have slowed job permit process to a crawl

Gov. Kathy Hochul says there are 32,000 jobs ready and waiting for the immigrants who have flooded New York in recent months — but an apparent bottleneck in the federal work permit approval process ...