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  • Appeals board says woman who disparaged Mexicans can't claim jobless benefits by citing Trump

    08/18/2018 10:48:05 AM PDT · by rickmichaels · 30 replies
    The Hill ^ | Aug. 16, 2018 | Morgan Gstalter
    An Iowa appeals board has reversed a judge's ruling that a woman who disparaged Mexicans can claim unemployment benefits because such rhetoric is "common" after President Trump was elected. Angela Diers filed for unemployment after said she was fired from her job at Dexter Laundry after she said in front of co-workers that she hated “f---ing Mexicans," The Des Moines Register reported Wednesday. Administrative Law Judge Beth Scheetz had originally approved Diers's request for aid, saying that derogatory comments about "blacks and foreigners" were commonplace at the commercial washer and dryer manufacturing plant where Diers worked. “Since President Trump’s election,...