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  • 12 - Attacking Democracy through Immigration Workplace Raids

  • from Part III - Labor, Diversity, and Democracy
  • Edited by Angela B. Cornell, Cornell University, New York, Mark Barenberg, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
    Published online:
    25 January 2022
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 199-216

  • Summary

    Democracy is under attack through immigration workplace raids. Labor unions have finally come to realize that noncitizen workers – documented and undocumented – are their future. ICE raids have been timed – particularly by the Bush and Trump administrations to thwart organizing efforts. Through a process of demonization and commodification of immigrant workers, the public has been conditioned to ignore the racial implications of ICE raids. But even a cursory examination reveals the racist effects of these enforcement efforts. However, on closer analysis, it reveals how these attacks are an attack on democracy as well. ICE raids are an attack on labor organizing, which in turn represents an assault on the freedom of association, freedom from discrimination, a strong middle class, and democratic acculturation.