“American Apparel, no stranger to controversial headlines, said Wednesday that the government has found that 1,800 of its employees are either illegally working in the U.S. or potentially illegal to work. Those employees comprise about one-third of the clothier’s Los Angeles manufacturing operation. The disclosure came as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of the 1,800 workers identified, 1,600 were deemed to be unauthorized to work while Immigration had been unable to verify the status of the remaining 200. The company said it was not found to have willingly hired illegal workers.” Link
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“Ewelina’s family came to America in 1999, and her father has become an American citizen. Her mother, a permanent resident, also is seeking to become a citizen. But because of a lawyer’s mistake eight years ago, according to the Bledniaks, Ewelina can’t stay in the U.S. with her parents.” Link
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“Set 25 to 40 years in the future, when the precipitous decline of the U.S. leads to a mass exodus of its citizens, ‘Americatown’ centers on a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants in a big foreign city. ‘By presenting Americans as immigrants in the near future, as both underdog and hero in the drama of global dislocation, we substitute a mirror for the rancor that informs much of the partisan debates on immigration,’ Winters said.” [Link]
