The United States Department of Justice is lost.
Posted on 08/31/2010 12:59:49 PM PDT by kcvl
The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.
The suit against the Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) over the state's new immigration law. It also comes as the department is investigating Joe Arpaio, the sheriff in Maricopa County, who is known for tough immigration enforcement.
In Monday's lawsuit, Justice officials said the colleges discriminated against nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants by mandating that they fill out more documents than required by law to prove their eligibility to work. That violated the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, the department said.
The law's anti-discrimination provision "makes it unlawful to treat authorized workers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status," said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for Justice's Civil Rights Division. He said the government "is acting now to remedy this pattern or practice of discrimination."
Tom Gariepy, a spokesman for Maricopa Community Colleges - which operates 10 colleges and two vocational training centers in and around Phoenix - declined to comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The federal government requires this very thing. Have they lost their minds?
Justice Dept fighting for illegal aliens...instead of deporting them.
How long have I been asleep?
SCREW THE FEDS!!!!
There are still some states which consider themselves sovereign. The DOJ is overstepping it’s jurisdiction once again!
The Supreme court has original jurisdiction over all legal disputes between any state and the Federal Government. My question is how the heck can Holder even file a suit in Arizona Federal Court?
Wow! Discriminating against ILLEGAL immigrants because they asked for their GREEN CARD. How dare they??? These are non-citizens here ILLEGALLY!! Why are they receiving benefits and more rights than our own citizens????
This should help the dems. in November
The United States Department of Justice is lost.
So now we know why zero wants a civilian army - just as strong and just as well funded as the US military....and why the EPA almost got away with their BS regarding lead bullets.
I want to know why this guy could not present a green card. If he's legal, then he has a green card he can present.
DOJ has no standing and neither do the illegals..
How dare they require more documentation of these illegals than is required of our illegal President.
Ok, help me with understanding this...The law’s anti-discrimination provision “makes it unlawful to treat authorized workers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status,” said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He said the government “is acting now to remedy this pattern or practice of discrimination.”
You’ve gotta be sh1tting me!!!!!!!!! Isn’t this just backwards - shouldn’t the Feds be MANDATING that the States put in to place proceedures to ensure only authorized people fill jobs (especially with unemployment running anywhere from 10% - 20% depending on how you count unemployed (to me - it’s anyone who is looking for a job but doesn’t have one...not to difficult)
From 1995 until 1998, Perez served as Special Counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy, and was Senator Kennedy's principal adviser on civil rights
Perez's nomination languished for several months amid questions by Republican senators about his record on immigration matters and by controversy over the Obama Justice Department's dismissal of a voter intimidation case against the militant New Black Panther Party
Perez is Latino
The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic
In 1996 Perez was instrumental in facilitating the passage of the Church Arson Prevention Act, a bill founded on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists.
From 1998 to 1999, Perez returned to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. In this role, he helped establish the Worker Exploitation Task Force, which sought to improve the working conditions of illegal aliens. Moreover, he worked to eliminate the disproportionate assignment of black and Hispanic students to special-education programs; to increase the number of such students in “gifted and talented” programs; to prosecute federal civil-rights cases involving police misconduct and hate crimes; and to eliminate racial profiling by law-enforcement.
Also during his tenure with the Clinton DOJ, Perez volunteered for – and later (from 1995-2002) became a board member of – Casa de Maryland, a George Soros-funded advocacy group for illegal aliens.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Perez in October 2009. Perez stated that, by his reckoning, CRD’s (Civil Rights Division) mission was to help those Americans who were “living in the shadows” – a reference not only to illegal aliens, but also to “our Muslim-American brothers and sisters subject to post-9/11 backlash”; “communities of color disproportionately affected by the subprime meltdown”; “LGBT brothers and sisters ... forced to confront discrimination”; and “all too many children lacking quality education.”
Perez has been a featured speaker at events held by the *American Constitution Society, telling its members that “your mission and ours [at CRD] share a lot in common.
*American Constitution Society - Washington, DC think tank
Building a network of hard-left operatives to infiltrate the legal profession
In its Mission Statement, ACS laments that “[i]n recent years, an activist conservative legal movement has gained influence—eroding [the] enduring values” of “individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice, democracy and the rule of law.”
ACS’s “Criminal Justice” working group produces and disseminates reports founded on the premise that “racial inequality permeates the [justice] system from arrest through sentencing.” A noteworthy co-chair of this project is Professor David Cole, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who has defended such abetters of Islamic terrorism as the radical attorney Lynne Stewart and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6707
And persecuting prosecuting States that actually have the temerity to follow the law!
Mark
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