Latino Ex-Employee Files Discrimination Claim Against Federation for American Immigration Reform

Scott Bixby at the Daily Beast reports on a claim of discrimination by an employee of a well-known immigration restriction group:

“When Joe Gomez joined the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) as its sole Latino employee, he told friends that the anti-immigration organization’s reputation as a hate group was unfounded. But after enduring months of racist slurs, mockery of his medical condition and racialized abuse from FAIR’s top management and executives, Gomez said, he filed a complaint with Washington D.C.’s Office of Human Rights. A copy of the complaint was provided to The Daily Beast.”

Gomez no longer works for FAIR. He reportedly plans to donate the lion’s share of any financial settlement reached with FAIR to a charity supporting migrants. “After working at FAIR, I think I owe it to them,” Gomez said.

KJ