This week, Fremont, Nebraska residents passed a local anti-immigrant measure that aims to ban hiring or renting to “illegal immigrants.” Unlike the laws passed in Hazleton, Pennsylvania and Farmers Branch, Texas, this law was enacted by voter referendum. Otherwise, though, the law is pretty similar to its predecessors — it requires local employers to use [...]
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More Anti-Immigrant Ordinances
June 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · AS, Immigration, Supreme Court
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Feds Make Lame Example of American Apparel
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Uncategorized
American Apparel is being pressured by an ongoing federal investigation of its workers to fire about 1,800 employees in the next few days based on irregularities in the employees’ identity documents, according to a story in the NY Times. (I would cite to the LA Times, but they seem to have been scooped. Surprise.)
This [...]
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