Service Employees International Union - SEIU - organization summary

SEIU believes the current immigration system is broken and must be updated and replaced by one that addresses the needs of U.S. and immigrant workers in the 21st century global economy. As the largest union of immigrant workers, and the second largest union in the U.S., we expect that our nation's leaders will enact workable solutions to our immigration problems and that they will recognize that punitive, anti-immigrant measures are neither realistic nor workable.

Once comprehensive reform is achieved:
* All workers will be legal workers, ending the current system of workforce tiers based on immigration status;
* Future immigrants will have a safer, legal, and more orderly path to our shores;
* The reduced illegal flow will greatly reduce the pressure for punitive enforcement measures that degrade our values; and
* Immigrants will be better integrated and less susceptible to exploitation; immigrants will succeed faster and will contribute more to our economy in numerous ways, including paying more taxes.

...decades of militarizing the border region and vastly expanding our border enforcement resources has only increased deaths in the dessert and enriched and professionalized organized smuggling rings and drug runners.