Obama Justice: Company Sued For Asking Illegals Where They Are From

Breitbart notes the inJustice department’s investigation found that the company had the audacity to actually require non-U.S. citizens, but not similarly-situated U.S. citizens, to present specific documentary proof of their immigration status to verify their employment eligibility. The INA’s anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from making documentary demands based on citizenship or national origin when verifying an employee’s authorization to work. Translation: you can’t ask them where they are from when you need, by law, to verify they are citizens. And yes, asking foreigners if they are legal can be grounds for a federal lawsuit in Obama’s world.

Under the settlement agreement, Nebraska Beef Ltd. will pay a $200,000 civil penalty to the United States and will establish an uncapped back pay fund to compensate individuals who lost wages because of the company’s allegedly illegal practices.

Source: Breitbart

But asking applicants to provide documentation of their legal immigration status is against the law. The DOJ says Nebraska Beef Ltd. didn’t use E-Verify “appropriately,” thus the violation.

The settlement came in August, as 689,000 Americans lost jobs and foreign job gains outpaced natives’ by 2.6 to one.