Republicans Accuse DOJ of Overlooking Bias Against US Workers

The Department of Justice unit charged with investigating immigration-related employment bias has devoted a disproportionate share of resources to protecting immigrant workers, a group of Republican senators said in a letter to the agency.

DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section has announced 46 actions over a two-year stretch, only a fifth of which involved alleged discrimination against US citizens, the lawmakers told Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke and IER Chief Alberto Ruisanchez in the letter Wednesday.

“That might be defensible if discriminatory employers rarely favored aliens, or if the problem of discrimination against US citizens were receding, ...