“Go Back To Where You Came From” Is Illegal
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has written specific rules that protect people, mostly immigrants, against employment discrimination on the basis of their national origin. The agency is responsible for enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age and disability.
“Ethnic slurs and other verbal or physical conduct because of nationality are illegal if they are severe or pervasive and create an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment, interfere with work performance, or negatively affect job opportunities,” the commission said on its website to describe harassment based on national origin.
“Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ whether made by supervisors or co-workers,” it continued.
https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/immigrants-facts.cfm
Jonathan Wolfman
07/18/2019 @ 11:36 am
Of course, it’s useful only if the Justice Department’s willing to act. We may well have to wait for a new AG, a new president.
Ronald Powell
07/18/2019 @ 3:00 pm
Trump has declared his ‘dislike’ of the chant and insists he didn’t incite or participate in it…Somebody got to him and he’s referencing the ‘Love it or leave it.’ trope which doesn’t carry the potential for criminal liability, but is just as disrespectful and insulting and possibly even more divisive…
koshersalaami
07/18/2019 @ 11:41 pm
Illegal, yes. Now we need consequences