Posted on 08/24/2023 4:19:35 PM PDT by Morgana
The Biden administration on Thursday accused Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company SpaceX of discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in its hiring practices.
The Justice Department is suing the company for backpay for people who were denied jobs.
'The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act,' the Justice Department said in a statement.
The issue is just another example of how the Biden administration and Musk have clashed over the years.
Musk has frequently accused President Joe Biden of snubbing his electric vehicle company Tesla when it comes to promoting greener forms of transport. And he mocked the U.S. president for failing to congratulate SpaceX on its first all-civilian mission.
At the same time, experts have warned that the U.S. has become increasingly reliant on the mercurial billionaire for space transport and electric vehicle charging stations.
In its suit, the Justice Department said SpaceX wrongly claimed in job postings and statements that federal regulations known as export control laws meant it could hire only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, sometimes referred to as 'green card holders.'
The Justice Department also pointed to online posts from the company's billionaire owner Musk as examples of 'discriminatory public statements.'
On June 16, 2020, Musk, who then had approximately 36 million followers on X, a social media platform formerly known as Twitter, posted: 'U.S. law requires at least a green card to be hired at SpaceX, as rockets are advanced weapons technology.'
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
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Looked at the headline and expected the Babylon Bee...
Me too!
That’s up to the powers that be these days.
And just how many ILLEGALS are educated and trained as ROCKET SCIENTISTS????
My guess ZERO. Dumbass DOJ Goons. Department of Certifiable Retards!!
Man, I hate communism.
Wow. Legality means nothing anymore. It seems to be whatever Joe says it is.
So . . Force employers to hire illegals and our kids won’t have jobs? They’ll have to join Joe Bidens army to survive and wind up in Ukraine, or worse.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
Next, Biden will require SpaceX to hand over its technology to China.
FJB.....A real piece of shi
I think that the Dept of Defense should make sure that all of its Top Secret projects have a full complement of Chinese immigrants in high positions. What could go wrong?
FJB.....A real piece of shi
Presumably they aren’t illegal immigrants, but have some form of visa to be here. But SpaceX’s excuse seems legit on its face. These are rockets, with technology used in weaponry which can be converted into ICBMs. You can’t just hire anyone and you probably do have to discriminate on the basis of national security, or at the very least keeping your business information proprietary.
“Isn’t it illegal to hire illegals?”
It is in Florida. A friend’s boy arrived on his construction site the day DeSantis’ law about hiring illegals went into effect. It was dead silent. The 60 framers were not there. Two weeks later, all was normal as it turned out there were enough citizens available and ready to work. Contractors don’t want to hire citizens because then they have to comply with the labor laws.
I think we should bunk illegals in SCIFs across the country.
Well, I would consider anything regarding space to be related to National Security and you really aren’t supposed to hire illegals for those positions because... it’s illegal and a national security risk.
https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/complete-and-correct-form-i-9
So, Coyote in Chief Joe Biden is suing on behalf of the millions of illegals he has ushered into the country by any means necessary to assure US citizens have enough competition for jobs.
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