{"id":2954,"date":"2006-11-20T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T01:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/20\/judge-finds-in-favor-of-day-laborers-racial-discrimination-claim\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T01:39:44","slug":"judge-finds-in-favor-of-day-laborers-racial-discrimination-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"Judge Finds In Favor of Day Laborers&#039; Racial Discrimination Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following this case for a while as it relates to my local area, but it is a strong victory for immigrant rights activists nationwide.\u00a0 Here is a brief quote and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/newsflash\/metro\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-22\/1164068343324680.xml&#038;storylist=simetro&#038;thispage=1\">link to the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge ruled Monday that the Village of Mamaroneck discriminated against Hispanic day laborers when it closed a hiring site and stepped up police patrols on the streets where they looked for work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since August 2004, and continuing into this past summer, the defendants have engaged in a campaign designed to drive out the Latino day laborers who gather on the streets of Mamaroneck to seek work,&#8221; Judge Colleen McMahon wrote. &#8220;The fact that the day laborers were Latinos, and not whites, was, at least in part, a motivating factor in defendants&#8217; actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While finding the village liable, McMahon did not specify a remedy, giving the two sides 10 days to make suggestions. And in a footnote at the end of the decision, she suggested there waas still time to find a settlement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following this case for a while as it relates to my local area, but it is a strong victory for immigrant rights activists nationwide.\u00a0 Here is a brief quote and a link to the article: A federal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2954\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}