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Noncitizen Immigrant Labor and the Thirteenth Amendment: Challenging Guest Worker Programs

Maria Linda Ontiveros
University of San Francisco - School of Law

University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2007

Abstract:
This article offers a Thirteenth Amendment analysis of "guest worker programs." In these visa programs, non-United States citizens may come to work in the United States for a limited period of time. Under most of these programs, the worker must leave if they get fired or quit. The article offers a historical perspective of agricultural guest worker programs from 1770 through today and concludes that poorly crafted guest worker programs may violate the Thirteenth Amendment.

Keywords: thirteenth amendment, constitution, farm workers, california history, labor, immigration, immigrant workers, visa, guest worker

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Date posted: September 27, 2007 ; Last revised: October 16, 2008

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Ontiveros, Maria Linda, Noncitizen Immigrant Labor and the Thirteenth Amendment: Challenging Guest Worker Programs. University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2007. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1017092

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Maria Linda Ontiveros (Contact Author)

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