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American Apparel to lay off quarter of workforce, presumed illegal aliens - 9/04/2009

... Street Journal informs us that American Apparel will be laying off about a quarter of their workforce due to a "crackdown" by the Department of Homeland Security (link). In a letter to employees in English and Spanish, Chief Executive Dov Charney said he was "deeply saddened" that the company has to shed workers who have been at the company for several years. Mr. Charney, a ch...

One-third of American Apparel's workforce might be illegal aliens; used "suspect and not valid" work documents - 7/01/2009

... has found that about a third of American Apparel's factory workers in the Los Angeles area had supplied suspect or invalid records and were not authorized to work in the United States... The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that some 1,600 current employees at American Apparel's Los Angeles factories appeared to have gained employment due to "suspect and not va...

Johanna Neuman /LAT "speechless" about Asian name normalization to avoid confusion - 4/09/2009

Johanna Neuman of the Los Angeles Times offers "As Obama tackles immigration, Texas legislator suggests immigrants Americanize names" (link). The first part of it discusses the New York Times article about Obama pushing immigration "reform". I'll tell you something she didn't tell you about that. The second part concerns a suggestion that Asian-Americans normalize the...

Villaraigosa, Dellums, Nickels don't want ICE immigration raids of "responsible employers" - 6/20/2008

... Nunez, Mexico-linked Peter Schey, American Apparel join to support illegal immigration AVWatch: Antonio Villaraigosa complains to Michael Chertoff about ICE raids AVWatch: Antonio Villaraigosa, Fabian Nunez at MacArthur Park candlelight vigil? Resolution No. 52 U.S.IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS WORKSITE ENFORCEMENT 1. WHEREAS, the United States is a nation of immigrants, the overwhelming majority of w...

Fabian Nunez, Mexico-linked Peter Schey, American Apparel join to support illegal immigration - 4/30/2008

... conference at the headquarters of American Apparel to oppose workplace raids and thus support illegal immigration. Also on hand was AA's attorney Peter Schey, someone with at least a few links to the Mexican government. Nunez is also a co-chair of the Hillary Clinton campaign, so asking her about his activities is highly recommended. From the Tiffany Hsu report (link; like Anna Gorman she do...

Dov Charney/American Apparel: wrong about immigration - 1/22/2008

Dov Charney of the L.A.-based American Apparel is running pro-illegal immigration ads that are almost certianly a publicity stunt. This post gives the campaign a little help in that direction, but hopefully some in his target market will read this and decide to get clothing from some other company, whether based on his past history (see the links above) or on the current ads. The ad can be seen he...

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