ACLU: Fullerton company exploited immigrants

by CINDY CARCAMO for Orange County Register, view original article

August 31, 2010

LOS ANGELES – A Fullerton manufacturing business targeted earlier this summer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on suspicion of hiring illegal workers is again under fire -- this time by a civil rights organization alleging the business exploited and discriminated against immigrant workers.

At a Tuesday morning news conference, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles announced they were launching a federal lawsuit against Terra Universal in Fullerton.

"The company chiseled their wages and stretched their hours," said ACLU staff attorney Jennie Pasquarella at the press conference. "Terra Universal is a multi-million dollar company built on the back of an immigrant workforce."

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