{"id":416,"date":"2006-11-30T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2006-12-02T23:20:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T03:20:30","slug":"congressman-warns-company-against-firing-illegal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/30\/congressman-warns-company-against-firing-illegal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Warns Company Against Firing Illegal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congressman Warns Company Against Firing Illegal Workers <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No really&#8230;it seems that to Rep. Bennie Thompson [D.Mississippi] firing illegals is &#8220;discriminatory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We agree&#8230;it discriminates between people who obey the laws of the United States and people who laugh at them.<\/p>\n<p>From the Washington Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Mississippi Democrat in line to become chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has warned the nation&#8217;s largest uniform supplier it faces criminal charges if it follows a White House proposal to recheck workers with mismatched Social Security numbers and fire those who cannot resolve the discrepancy in 60 days.<br \/>\n    Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a letter to Cintas Corp. it could be charged with &#8220;illegal activities in violation of state and federal law&#8221; if any of its 32,000 employees are terminated because they gave incorrect Social Security numbers to be hired.<br \/>\n    &#8220;I am deeply troubled by Cintas&#8217; recent policy change regarding the Social Security Administration&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hr.blr.com\/display.cfm\/id\/18554\">&#8216;no match&#8217; letters<\/a>,&#8221; Mr. Thompson said in the Nov. 2 letter. &#8220;It is my understanding that hundreds of Cintas&#8217; immigrant workers have received these letters. I am extremely concerned about any potentially discriminatory actions targeting this community.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not a good start from a man who is the new incoming Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/national\/20061128-122911-2961r.htm\">the rest of the story <\/a>here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Warns Company Against Firing Illegal Workers No really&#8230;it seems that to Rep. Bennie Thompson [D.Mississippi] firing illegals is &#8220;discriminatory&#8221;. We agree&#8230;it discriminates between people who obey the laws of the United States and people who laugh at them. From the Washington Times: A Mississippi Democrat in line to become chairman of the House Homeland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}