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Arizona colleges accused of immigrant discrimination
Before this year, Phoenix-area community colleges asked legal immigrants to show a green card before hiring them. The Justice Department calls the policy 'document abuse' and seeks damages.
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau
September 4, 2010
Reporting from Washington
Employers who hire illegal immigrants can be fined, but the Obama administration warned this week that they also can be fined for asking legal immigrants to show their green cards before hiring them.
The Justice Department's civil rights division sued the Maricopa County Community Colleges in Arizona, seeking damages from schools for having "intentionally committed document abuse discrimination."
Prior to this year, the local colleges in the Phoenix area asked job applicants who were not U.S. citizens to show a driver's license, a Social Security card and their permanent resident card, commonly called a green card.
http://www.latimes.c...558,print.story
A Phoenix, Arizona Community College is being sued for asking prospective employees for their green cards before hiring, as per law. The DOJ said that they “intentionally committed document abuse discrimination.”
The college, if they didn’t verify an employees legal status, would be subjected to severe fines for hiring an illegal.
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