[Opinion] For Chicago’s immigrant workforce, new rules, backlogs make getting, keeping a work permit harder

For Chicago’s immigrant workforce, new rules, backlogs make getting, keeping a work permit harder

Jean Yameogo used to meet friends after work to drink tea and talk politics.One day, he says, someone reported him for expressing a negative opinion about the government of Burkina Faso to members of a pro-government group.Soon after, Yameogo says the group began threatening him. They came to his interior design shop in Ouagdougu, where he employed three people, and destroyed equipment he used for welding and carpentry and materials for sewing a…

For Chicago’s immigrant workforce, new rules, backlogs make getting, keeping a work permit harder | Illinois State Bar Association

For Chicago’s immigrant workforce, new rules, backlogs make getting, keeping a work permit harderAdvocates say the changes are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to limit legal pathways for immigrants who are following the law. Source: Chicago Sun