Justice Department Announces Public Education Campaign Grants to Fight Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination

Justice Department Announces Public Education Campaign Grants to Fight
Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department today
announced that it has awarded $723,000 in grants to twelve groups serving
communities throughout the country to conduct public education programs for
workers and employers about federal protections against immigration-related
job discrimination.

The grants, which range from $48,000 to $87,000, are being awarded by the
Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices
(OSC) of the department's Civil Rights Division. Recipients will assist
discrimination victims; conduct seminars for workers, employers and
immigration service providers; distribute educational materials in various
languages; and place advertisements in local communities through both
mainstream and ethnic media to educate workers and employers about their
rights.

OSC enforces the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (INA), which protects U.S. and authorized immigrant workers
against citizenship and national origin discrimination. As part of its
mission, OSC also educates workers and their employers about the
anti-discrimination provision.

"Awarding grants to professional and community-based organizations better
enables us to educate workers and employers about their rights and
responsibilities under federal immigration law," said Loretta King, Acting
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "Our grant
recipients, who are well-known and respected in their communities, will
collaborate with us to prevent immigration-related discrimination in the
workplace."

The OSC grant recipients are:

Arizona Attorney General's Office, Civil Rights Division
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
Catholic Charities of Dallas
Catholic Charities, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Colorado Legal Services
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA)
National Farm Worker Service Center
National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
New York City Human Rights Commission
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
University of Iowa
Washington Farm Labor Association

For more information about protections against job discrimination under
federal immigration law, call 800-255-7688, 202-616-5594, email:
osc.crt@usdoj.gov or visit http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/osc

SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice

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