17. Department of Justice · Minor
Enforce anti-discrimination law through the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section
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“Pursue aggressive enforcement of the immigration laws within the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division to ensure that no American citizen is discriminated against in the employment context in favor of a temporary or foreign worker.”
What has happened
- Done
The enforcement program is settled and producing results across the largest employers: the Division secured a settlement with OpenAI for discriminating against U.S. workers. Aggressive enforcement within the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, protecting American citizens against preference for temporary or foreign workers, is the Section's published business.
- Partially done
The Immigrant and Employee Rights Section's docket is now built around this ask. The Civil Rights Division sued Cloudera for excluding U.S. workers from applying to high-paying technology jobs, one of a continuous run of citizenship-status discrimination actions — a $200,000 fine against a technology company in September 2025, settlements with a Michigan IT firm, a company using AI-generated advertisements that screened out U.S. workers, and a record $18.25 million back-pay distribution to workers harmed by Apple's recruitment practices.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
An ongoing-practice ask leveled on documented enforcement rather than on a directive; the Section’s output is the evidence.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- Immigrant and Employee Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division
- ID
- 1576