Immigrant Worker Firings Unsettle a College Campus

New York Times

February 2, 2012

Late last year, administrators at Pomona College delivered letters to dozens of longtime dining hall employees asking them to show proof of legal residency, saying that an internal review had turned up problems in their files. On Dec. 2, 17 workers who could not produce documents showing that they were legally able to work in the U.S. lost their jobs. Now, the campus is deep into a consuming debate over what it means to be a college with liberal ideals, with some students, faculty and alumni accusing the administration and the board of directors of betraying the college's ideals.

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