Discrimination: They keep using that word...

[ArthurWilborn]

Tell me I'm the one who's nuts here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-employers-20100904,0,5792545.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fnation+%28L.A.+Times+-+National+News%29

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."

Apparently now even asking for the appropriate paperwork during hiring is illegal "discrimination".

 

[lrkun]

Gening Liao, a lawyer for the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, said the law itself is clear.

"If you bring in a driver's license and a Social Security card, those documents are sufficient. Employers are prohibited from asking for extra documents or different documents," she said. "This is blatant discrimination, and we get calls about it all the time. We hope to see more lawsuits like this."

I agree with Gening Liao.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Gening Liao, a lawyer for the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, said the law itself is clear.

"If you bring in a driver's license and a Social Security card, those documents are sufficient. Employers are prohibited from asking for extra documents or different documents," she said. "This is blatant discrimination, and we get calls about it all the time. We hope to see more lawsuits like this."

I agree with Gening Liao.

Same here. The colleges accept that they were wrong, and are only whining about the possible punishment. Since you already have to provide a green card to get a driver's licence in Arizona, why would you have to present it again to get a job based on the DL?

 

[Giliell]

Looks like another case of making things look quite the opposite from what they are by only presenting half the truth.
If those documents you can ask for and everybody has to present already prove that you're a legal citizen, then asking for further evidence from people who look alien and have a strange accent is discrimination

 

[AdmiralPeacock]