Posted on 12/08/2009 6:11:05 PM PST by SmithL
WALNUT CREEK — More than 40 employees at the downtown Target store quit their jobs after an internal probe raised suspicions about their immigration status, according to lawyers who have met with the workers.
Managers summoned the overnight crew of the North Main Street department store to meetings last month and gave workers the chance to prove their eligibility to work in the United States by bringing in the proper documents, the lawyers and Target representatives say.
Most of the questioned workers voluntarily resigned, Target spokeswoman Kate Gillen said. The Minnesota-based retailer would not say how many workers left the Walnut Creek store, but advocates for the employees say it was dozens.
"Forty-five people are without a job," said lawyer Rocio Avila of La Raza Centro Legal, a San Francisco legal group pressing Target for more information. "Many of the workers there were long-term workers. There was one gentleman who had been (at Target) for 19 years, and the average was five to six years. These weren't temporary workers, seasonal workers for the holiday season. These were loyal workers who had been there for a long time."
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and forty-five openings for US citizens or legal immigrants.
justice is done
>>”Forty-five people are without a job,” said lawyer Rocio Avila of La Raza Centro Legal<<
No, 45 criminals are without a job. In a few days there will 45 people with jobs so the final result is there will be zero people without a job.
Send illegals home - more jobs for Americans. I am glad Target checked. They should have checked sooner.
No, the quit because they are illegal immigrants who didn’t want to get caught.
How’s about we send this crack team of lawyers to the White House? I suspect we have a similar problem there.
I wish every employer would do this...
Si, Sy, Sue, so?
“”Many of the workers there were long-term workers. There was one gentleman who had been (at Target) for 19 years, and the average was five to six years. These weren’t temporary workers, seasonal workers for the holiday season. These were loyal workers who had been there for a long time.”
Buh bye, job thieves.
Just as an aside : Hey, la raza. take a leap you anti-American, traitorous bast**ds!
Wow. Remind me to shop at Target.
I hope that Target is substantially fined for this - it's been going on 19 years that Target doesn't know how to check the citizenship status of its employees???
Yeah, sure.
They must all have Harvard MBAs and that's why they're utterly incompetent.
Maybe we don't need any Job Stimulus Package - perhaps we just need to have illegal workers DEPORTED.
If this story was about Walmart it would be a national story. But Target ?? The press doesn’t care if Target is corrupt - they’re dems.
There are 45 job openings at the Walnut Creek Target.
My words exactly.
If I understand this correctly, the fact that they were LONG-TERM criminals, rather than folks who just recently went criming on a lark LESSENS their culpability?
I don’t get it...
Wandered into the target store in Sand City Ca (Monterey) last night. Thought I was in Mexico.
” ... lawyer Rocio Avila of La Raza Centro Legal, a San Francisco legal group pressing Target for more information. “Many of the workers there were long-term workers. There was one gentleman who had been (at Target) for 19 years, and the average was five to six years.”
Workers=criminals, counselor. The US is a nation of laws, abogado Avila, as opposed to mexico; successfully evading US immigration laws for a few months or years doesn’t mean you get to stay, you get a bye—goodbye1
Hasta la vista! Don’t let the puerta hit ya on the way out.
Now I’m going to e-mail my brother-in-law in Walnut Creek who has been out of work for a few months.
Let mexico take care of its own people!
You were. And they think so, too.
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