CIM Sandbox: Protests for laid-off D’Amico immigrant workers continue
John K
· 1 year ago
Obeying the law I thought it was against the law to employ illegal aliens. What are they protesting? I am glad to see somebody is enforcing the law, even when the police do not.
Les
· 1 year ago
I Agree, But This report is not clear one way or the other concerning the status of the employee's terminated by the company.
If they (fired workers) are legal immigrants. More power to em.. D'amico's should be called out on their action.
If they are illegal, then D'amico's should be applauded for their proactive approach to the immigration issue.
I wish the media would learn that immigrant and Illegal immigrant are two completely different things, and report accordingly.
Anna Pratt
· 1 year ago
les: thanks, i added les, thanks, i added in a statement about how their status is unclear (above).
Anna
mcg
· 1 year ago
Who's gaming who? D'Amicos made a commitment to use the process that involved sending letters to Baltimore (which is where the original no match letters came from, by the way...) They even sent at least one worker a letter saying that he would not be fired after sending a letter to Baltimore.
A week later, they announced they'd fire workers who didn't play by the new rules they invented.
Who's gaming who?
amandat
· 1 year ago
I Agree But... Les,
1. The workers were not fired due to their immigration status - they were fired due to not resolving a "no match" letter. Appears article has been updated so maybe that wasn't in the original version you read.
2. You are saying, if they are illegal, it's OK to fire them based on no match letters. But what if they are legal? That's the whole point of the protest. It's just not right to fire people over those letters period. We have to be consistent in our application of laws. Just because someone has an accent or a different color skin doesn't make it OK to change the way we enforce laws.
3. Responding to a no-match letter after having employed someone for 10 years is not very proactive way to enforce immigration laws in my mind.
4. Illegal immigrants are immigrants you know. One is a subcategory of the other. So they are not completely different. Would it bother you if the media talked about a "car" as opposed to calling it a "honda civic"?
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If they (fired workers) are legal immigrants. More power to em.. D'amico's should be called out on their action.
If they are illegal, then D'amico's should be applauded for their proactive approach to the immigration issue.
I wish the media would learn that immigrant and Illegal immigrant are two completely different things, and report accordingly.
Anna
A week later, they announced they'd fire workers who didn't play by the new rules they invented.
Who's gaming who?
1. The workers were not fired due to their immigration status - they were fired due to not resolving a "no match" letter. Appears article has been updated so maybe that wasn't in the original version you read.
2. You are saying, if they are illegal, it's OK to fire them based on no match letters. But what if they are legal? That's the whole point of the protest. It's just not right to fire people over those letters period. We have to be consistent in our application of laws. Just because someone has an accent or a different color skin doesn't make it OK to change the way we enforce laws.
3. Responding to a no-match letter after having employed someone for 10 years is not very proactive way to enforce immigration laws in my mind.
4. Illegal immigrants are immigrants you know. One is a subcategory of the other. So they are not completely different. Would it bother you if the media talked about a "car" as opposed to calling it a "honda civic"?