National Employment Law Project

Mar. 26, 2012 | Posted by: Eunice Cho

Undocumented Immigrant Worker Loses Challenge Against Bank of America

As the Sacramento Bee aptly puts it, "Do you want your banker acting like an immigration agent?" Last Thursday, Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California dismissed a complaint brought by Luis Martinez-Rodriguez, a Sacramento gardener, homeowner, and father of U.S. citizens who had three accounts and a morthgage with the Bank of America. Martinez's nightmare began when a Bank of America agent called him into the bank for a meeting, and reported him to Yuba County authorities for identity theft. County authorities turned him over to ICE, who then began removal proceedings.

Immigrant worker campaign of the month

December 2012 | WORKER’S JUSTICE PROJECT: DECEMBER 2012 IMMIGRANT WORKER CAMPAIGN OF THE MONTH!

The Worker’s Justice Project, located in Jackson Heights, New York, is a collectively-formed organizing project to empower low-wage immigrant workers to change conditions that lead to exploitation, strengthen the grassroots base of the labor movement, and to create grassroots economic change. For more than a decade, the Bay Parkway Community Job Center has served as an important community resource for countless workers. The job center, however, was not spared by Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed the worker center and the surrounding area. Day laborers—who are playing a critical role in the recovery of the area, even forming a volunteer brigade to help with the cleanup—now lack a central space to meet employers.

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