Cleanlink News November 11 2009
1,200+ Janitors Fired in Immigration Audit
According to an Associated Press article, an immigration attorney says roughly 1,250 undocumented janitors in the Twin Cities were fired from their jobs in October as their company checked immigration papers. The janitors worked for ABM Industries Inc., a New-York based company that provides janitorial services, said John Keller, an attorney for the nonprofit Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.
Keller says the workers' union called his office in early June for legal advice. He says ABM had sent employees letters that said Immigration and Customs Enforcement was requiring workers to show documents proving they had legal status to work in the U.S. According to Keller, the vast majority of the 1,250 fired workers were undocumented and to his knowledge, no one was arrested or deported.
