It doesn't help undocumented workers for leftists to assert, as you do, that they don't have the rights that they _do_ have. Undocumented workers _are_ entitled to back wages for the hours they worked, and that's the law. Let's not spread a lie.
Most workers, be they citizens or documented or undocumented workers, seldom know what their rights are, and leftists, especially left-wing lawyers, should make sure that people first of all become aware of and make use of all rights they do have.
> After Hoffman, they clearly are. What avenues do they have? What
> avenues do they pursue now? Almost none. It's just unreasonable to
> think that the law protects illegal workers' pay. The practical
> barriers are just too high.
It's actually undocumented workers who won the only big working-class victory in recent history, for themselves and for native-born workers: stopping the US government from making a federal crime out of merely being "out of status."
In comparison to undocumented workers and their allies, native-born workers have less class consciousness and are more passive. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>