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MALDEF Files Lawsuit for employment discriminaton for DACA recipients

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BREAKING: A 27-year-old immigrant was rejected as a job applicant by @BankofAmerica because he's a #DACA recipient. @MALDEF has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the corporation's discriminatory hiring policies.

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MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and the law firm Elliot Morgan Parsonage PLLC of Winston-Salem, N.C., filed the suit on behalf of Daniel Marques, a 27-year-old native of Brazil who is a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Marques is authorized to work by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, but he was abruptly disqualified from consideration for a job with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, a division of Bank of America, after he informed the company of his DACA grant, the lawsuit states.
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Marques submitted an application in March 2016 through Bank of America’s online job application portal for a position in New Jersey as a Practice Management Development Associate within the financial advisor program of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. He received an email soon thereafter from Bank of America’s vice president, executive recruiter for the mid-Atlantic market to schedule a March 30 telephone interview. The vice president informed Marques during the interview that as a non-citizen applicant, he was required to be eligible to work in the United States “without limitations.”

After the phone interview, the executive recruiter sent Marques an email the same day saying she would recommend further interviews. Marques responded with a request for further clarification of her statement that he would need work authorization “without limitations,” and attached a copy of his valid Employment Authorization Document, which is renewable every two years under DACA.

On April 4, 2016, the executive called Marques to say that he was disqualified from further consideration for the job because he is a DACA recipient. Marques sent follow-up emails seeking more specific information, but he did not receive any responses.

“We are determined to vindicate the full rights afforded to immigrants with federal work authorization,” said Burth López, MALDEF staff attorney and counsel in the case. “Companies may not pick and choose among work-authorized job applicants based on the applicants’ immigration status.”

The lawsuit seeks class -action status on behalf of all non-citizens who were authorized to work in the United States, including other holders of deferred action, refugees, and visa holders, and who were denied employment by Bank of America after April 4, 2016 because of their immigration status.
http://maldef.org/news/releases/2018..._Non-Citizens/
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Don't give anyone more information than you need to.
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Yup! wait till you show up on your Day 1 to fill out your immigration status forms.
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Gotta love living in a litigate country. Hopefully they rule in his favor and other companies follow precedence.
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Lot of graduate schools like med schools don’t accept students with DACA that’s not fair
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Did bank of america signed any of those CEO letters that were sent to congress? If they did the CEO must be furious...
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You don’t have to say you’re a DACA recipient. You just fill out the i9 and write in your EAD’s expiration. Either way, this is awful and I hope he wins the lawsuit.
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Lot of graduate schools like med schools don’t accept students with DACA that’s not fair
I don't think that's true. In fact, my experience has been that graduate schools love DACA recipients.

Can you provide evidence for your claim? I'm willing to be wrong here.
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Bank of America is fuked and this guy will get a good ass settlement probably.
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This guy is about to be rich
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