Immigrants

Woodfin Suites Hotel Workers Challenge No-match Firings

24 ICE Office, Oakland

Immigrant workers from the Woodfin Suites hotel and their supporters rally outside the office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency offices, protesting the intimidation of immigrant hotel workers and threats of deportation. Hotel managers fired 20 workers, accusing them of lacking legal permission to work, alleging that they don't have valid Social Security numbers. Workers say the hotel was retaliating against them for trying to enforce the city's new living wage ordinance, and that federal immigration authorities were helping them by threatening the workers.

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