Submitted by Dirtperson Steve
Biden’s Department of Justice has slapped a whopping $700,000 fine on Covenant Transport Inc. and the affiliated Transport Management Services LLC, both stellar examples of Tennessee’s robust transportation sector.
The recent decision by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to impose a $700,000 fine on Covenant Transport Inc., a Christian trucking company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, raises significant concerns about the overreach of federal power and the disregard for the realities faced by businesses in regulating their workforce.
The DOJ, under Joe Biden’s regime, claims this measure is to resolve alleged violations of the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by Covenant and its affiliated entity, Transport Management Services LLC.
The department accuses Covenant of discriminating against non-U.S. citizen workers by requiring specific documentation to confirm their legal status to work in the United States.
From the DOJ’s press release:
The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a $700,000 agreement with Covenant Transport Inc. (Covenant), as well as the affiliated entity Transport Management Services LLC (Transport), two transportation logistics and long-haul trucking companies headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The agreement resolves the department’s determination that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by routinely discriminating against non-U.S. citizen workers when checking their permission to work in the United States.
“Employers cannot discriminate against non-U.S. citizens by demanding specific or unnecessary documents from them to prove their permission to work,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department is committed to ensuring compliance with our federal civil rights laws so that non-U.S. citizens with permission to work can contribute their talents to our workforce.”
The department’s investigation found that from January 2020 through at least August 2022, Covenant and Transport routinely discriminated against non-U.S. citizens by requiring lawful permanent residents to show their Permanent Resident Cards (known as green cards) and by requiring other non-U.S. citizens to show documents related to their immigration status.
Federal law allows all workers to choose which valid, legally acceptable documentation to present to demonstrate their identity and permission to work, regardless of citizenship status, immigration status or national origin. The INA’s anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from requiring specific or unnecessary documents because of a worker’s citizenship status, immigration status or national origin. Indeed, many non-U.S. citizens, including lawful permanent residents, are eligible for several of the same types of documents to prove their permission to work as U.S. citizens are (for example, a state ID or driver’s license and an unrestricted Social Security card). Employers must allow workers to present whatever acceptable documentation the workers choose and cannot reject valid documentation that reasonably appears to be genuine and to relate to the worker.
Under the terms of the agreement, Covenant and Transport will pay $700,000 in civil penalties to the United States, train their employees on the INA’s anti-discrimination requirements, revise their employment policies and be subject to monitoring by the department.
However, this overlooks the legitimate concerns and responsibilities of businesses to ensure their employees are legally permitted to work.
Generally, illegal immigrants are not eligible for work permits. However, there may be exceptions for certain groups, such as “refugees” or those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
“Asylum seekers” may be eligible for work permits after they have filed their application and received an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).
According to Gittes Law Group, “Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), it is illegal for employers to knowingly employ undocumented workers. When employees are hired, their employer is required to ask for documents. The documents must show their identity and authorization to work in the U.S. Those documents must “reasonably appear to be genuine.”
“Employers must terminate, or refuse to hire, an undocumented worker if they find the worker is unauthorized to work. But, the employer cannot use immigration status as an excuse to fire undocumented workers who make discrimination complaints. Undocumented workers are covered by federal discrimination laws. The law prohibits employers from retaliating against workers who assert their legal rights. If an employer retaliates against an employee for exercising their right to file a discrimination complaint, the employer is breaking the law.”
According to the law group:
In the United States, an undocumented worker or undocumented immigrant is a foreign-born person who is not a permanent resident and is not a U.S. citizen. “Undocumented immigrant” may refer to a person whose immigration status is not resolved. Due to the unresolved status, the worker does not have permission to work in the United States.
These two terms are sometimes used to mean the same thing. An illegal immigrant/alien is foreign-born individual who has entered the U.S. illegally and can be deported. It may also refer to a person who entered the U.S. legally but who has lost their legal status and can be deported. An undocumented immigrant is a foreign-born person who does not possess a valid visa or other immigration documentation, because they entered the U.S. without inspection, stayed longer than their temporary visa permitted, or otherwise violated the terms under which they were admitted.
“Illegal immigrant/alien” is an offensive term to some people because it implies that the person is somehow “illegal.” While the person may be in the U.S. illegally, they are not “illegal,” only their status is. “Undocumented” better describes the situation of an immigrant who doesn’t currently have valid legal status in the U.S.
Our justice system is a joke!
The DOJ’s action against the Christian trucking company is to penalize them for undertaking due diligence in ensuring its workforce complies with legal standards. This fine seems more like a punitive measure against a company striving to maintain legal integrity in its employment practices.
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Wasn’t it the federal government who created the requirement for employers to monitor citizenship status of their employees and report it to dotgov ?
E-verify anyone?
And for trying to open bank and credit union accounts.
That may have been from someone “Anonymous” ???
First combat paycheck? Enlistment bonus?
AZ Sheriff Mark Lamb: Some “Migrants” Getting $5,000 VISA Cards (12.7.23)
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“Migrants” . . . They’re invaders, you cunts. STOP calling them “migrants”!
Exactly, I have changed to only using invaders
Comanches
Meanwhile……………..WHITE WORKING PEOPLE were FIRED for not taking part in the KIKE controlled democrat parties FAKE-DEADLY vaxx experiment !
WAKE THE FUCK UP !
There is only ONE solution now to take back our country.
KTA !
Your government is at war……. against you….
Funny how the left say “private corporations can do whatever they want” when the wind blows a certain way.
Fake, gay story.
A judgement is not the same as any cash exchanging hands.
Seems to me, at this point it would be cheaper for corporations to just start hiring hitmen to off these activist judges.
Gotta be waaaaaay less than $700,000 to hire out a hit.
Jes sain.
One of these judges will eventually try and bleed someone who will “bleed back”…with extreme prejudice.
Waitig for our Howard Hughes vs Senator Brewster showdown show.
It’s illegal to hire an illegal but to ask if one is illegal is illegal. Illogical if you ask me. Fascist government, very tight government control over private business.
Catch-22
Funny how all this shit “works”. The logging industry had plenty of questionable workers as well as the plant nurseries, various construction contractors and such in this neck of the Texas. For some fucking reason they began to thin when fucking Obama was around. Shrugging shoulders…
Before 2012 flatbed trucks full of watermelons and brown skinned watermelon gatherers. By 2012, gone. Tru Storie.
Not like lazy millennials would do the job anyway. Replace them with robots already.
That’s what Davos wants. And millennials did not create themselves. Let’s fix stuff, not curse it and burn it. That’d be actually . . . “awoke”.
hire illegals, get a fine. ask if illegal, get a fine. an especially big fine when you are a christian trucking firm in the crosshairs of the jewish run dept of injustice.
Just one business using their pull in DC to destroy a competitor.
Owning DC bureaucrats and pols has perks.
When I lived in North Fort Worth , Tarrant County , Texas…”I mow your yard man, $20.” Dudes were all over the place mowing yards. $20 was for 60×120 tract home lot. They did bigger bucks in places like Southlake , Texas, if they could get through the gated community gates which they did, no problem. It was a cheap service then.
At the Potomic Grand Ball,
Thec”Tammany Hall Shakedown” is all the rage.
We will not enforce immigration laws and we will not allow anyone else enforce them either. We decide what violations will be prosecuted.
Sincerely,
Merrick Garland
“Biden’s Department of Justice“…that’s hilarious, I just snorted my bourbon…and it burns.
“Biden’s Department of Justice”
More like dept of just ass
Back in the 80’s I was working my way through school. In 1980 interest rates were at 20 percent. As we rolled through the decade there were double dip recessions. Jobs were not easy to come by for unskilled labor. I remember I would drive downtown for just a chance get some day work. When I would to the office early before it opened there would be a line of people around the block hoping to see the agent. Though I was s young guy I was aware that immigration was an issue in some parts of the country more than others. It was in this era that Reagan cut a deal getting amnesty for the immigrants but in return stiffer laws requiring identification with employers were put into place. I do not recall the exact date of the amnesty bill but you can do a deep dive on it if interested. Many people believe immigration and globalism are new phenomenas. They are not. And the immigrants and U.S. workers are being played against one another. The globalist have routinely been the winners.
From Wikipedia:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Its-A-Wonderful-Life-C0C7RYVFS
I have a guy at my job who is a great worker but can’t seem to provide a SSN to apply for an electrician apprentice license from the state..
I reported this to my company, and they are doing nothing about it, so I will refuse to have him.do any electrical work, and not teach my skills to him.
I will defer undone electrical work to be done on overtime for my benefit.
Fuck him and the company.
I am sick of seeing my trade being taken over by swarthy invaders.
Given how so many blue States will give drivers licenses to anyone with a heartbeat, how much of a stretch is it for a prospective employer to distrust that form of ID?