How U.S. Immigration Law Enables Modern Slavery
By tying workers’ residence status to an employer, the visa system leaves many of them vulnerable to exploitation.
This article is part of a series of responses to Alex Tizon’s Atlantic article “My Family’s Slave.” The full series can be found here.
In the devastating cover story in ’s June issue, the late, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Tizon recounts the life of Eudocia “Lola” Pulido, a Filipino immigrant who worked for 56 years without pay for Tizon’s family. Responses to the essay have that stories like Pulido’s remain all too common in the United States. And one detail in
