Labor, meanwhile, gets significant worker protections, including the right for immigrants to change jobs and to seek green cards and citizenship if they wish. Labor’s objection to previous guest-worker programs was that they import workers who are shackled to employers and thus acutely vulnerable to exploitation — a recipe for abysmal wages and working conditions for everybody.
I doubt very much that unions actually care about low wages and working conditions – what’s important for them is the influx of new voters that will cement Democrats’ offices and ensure unions’ pillaging of the federal budget.
Here’s the pivotal detail that’s not reported in the New York Times’ opinion cited above: