The Mexican government announced Thursday that it is reviewing a complaint [complaint, PDF] by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) [union website] that Alabama's immigration law [HB 56, PDF] violates [press release] the North American Fair Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) [texts]. The SEIU argues that the law violates the NAALC, the labor side agreement to NAFTA, by failing to meet labor standards and ensure workers' access to procedures and remedies for obtaining workers' compensation. The SEIU specifically alleges that Alabama's immigration law is violating the protections granted to migrant workers under...