NYT: firing of undocumented workers "a consuming debate over what it means to be a liberal college" [View all]

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Geez. From the NY Times article "After Workers Are Fired, an Immigration Debate Roils California Campus":

The dining hall workers had been at Pomona College for years, some even decades. For a few, it was the only job they held since moving to United States.

Then late last year, administrators at the college delivered letters to dozens of the longtime employees asking them to show proof of legal residency, saying that an internal review had turned up problems in their files.

Seventeen workers could not produce documents showing that they were legally able to work in the United States. So on Dec. 2, they lost their jobs.

Now, the campus is deep into a consuming debate over what it means to be a liberal college, with some students, faculty and alumni accusing the administration and the board of directors of betraying the college’s ideals.

Well I'm a liberal and guess what? I am totally in support of prosecuting employers who knowingly hire people who lack work authorization. Did the New York Post (a Murdoch-owned tabloid) infiltrate the Times or something? Liberal to me means supporting workers' rights, but employing cheap immigrant labor ain't part of that.