New York court rules in favor of day laborers

A federal judge ruled yesterday that “a virtual zero tolerance policy” in the suburban village of Mamaroneck discriminated against immigrant day laborers. Judge Coleen McMahon wrote in her decision that “the fact that the day laborers were Latinos, and not whites, was, at least in part, a motivating factor in the defendants’ actions.” The ruling is landmark in that it could affect how immigrant day laborers are treated in other U.S. communities, like the Pennsylvania town of Hazelton which was featured on 60 Minutes last Sunday.

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Image- Gotham Gazette (Day laborers on Long Island)

Tags- United States, immigration, law