Myles Danh-Thanh Ong ‘76 ♠️♥️ :
For decades, U.S. Congress has failed to impose severe penalties on companies and corporations that have profited from immigrant labor, enabling businesses to exploit low-wage, often undocumented workers with minimal repercussions, as enforcement remains weak and inconsistent. This legislative inaction has allowed corporate exploitation to persist, with occasional fines doing little to deter widespread practices. Simultaneously, the immigration asylum system is critically overwhelmed, with a backlog surpassing 4 million cases as of early 2025, driven by underfunding, insufficient staffing, and convoluted legal processes. Asylum denial rates, which lack comprehensive 70-year data but show 10-year averages from 2000 to 2022 at roughly 60% (rising from 44.5% in 2012 to 61.8% in 2017), reveal significant bias against asylum seekers. Courts like Miami’s, with a 73% denial rate since 2000, highlight disparities influenced by judicial discretion, regional differences, and systemic inefficiencies, further compounding the challenges for asylum seekers while corporate impunity for exploiting immigrant labor continues largely unchecked due to congressional inertia.
2025-07-13 20:17:58