Owner was target, but restaurant workers are swept up in immigration raids

An article in The New York Times about immigration enforcement agents who arrested 24 undocumented workers and the owner of the four restaurants in the Buffalo area in which they were employed quotes Nicole Hallett, assistant clinical professor of law and director of UB’s Community Justice Clinic, who is representing three of the workers in their immigration cases. “If you are concerned about the exploitation of workers, you should not be prosecuting or deporting worker victims, because that discourages workers from coming forward in situations where they are being exploited,” she said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/nyregion/immigration-workplace-raids-buffalo.html?_r=0