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Racefile.(protests by immigrant airport screeners who stand to lose their jobs for being non-US citizens)(includes news about campaign against Taco Bell advertising with the chihuahua and boycott against Cincinnati for its race policies)
Neither Job nor Airport Security
Airport screeners across the country are speaking out against the new law prohibiting noncitizens from working as airport screeners. The new citizenship requirement in the Aviation and Transportation Security Act signed last November is scheduled to rake full effect by November 2002.
Nearly 30,000 immigrant airport screeners will lose their jobs if the law is kept in place. SEIU, ACLU, and community organizations such as Filipinos for Affirmative Action have filed a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of immigrant screeners, charging the federal government with violations of due process and the Fifth Amendment.
Noncitizens constitute about a quarter of airport screeners across the country. In California, where the campaign against the citizenship requirement has been the most active, 40 percent of Los Angeles International Airport and 80 percent of San Francisco Bay Area airport screeners are immigrants with permanent legal residence. Over 75 percent of the 1,250 screeners at the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose airports are Filipino.
The campaign hopes to pressure Congress to repeal the citizenship requirement before the November deadline and to allow immigrant screeners to keep their jobs in the meantime. Critics of the citizenship requirement point out the hypocrisy in federal policy that permits immigrants to enlist in the U.S. military forces but not to screen passengers boarding a flight.
"It really upsets me to know that it's O.K. for me to serve this country and be willing to die for this country. Yet I'm not able to work for the government as an airport screener," said Jeimy Gebin, a baggage screener at LAX, in an interview with the New York Times. Gebin, an immigrant from El Salvador, is a veteran of the U.S. Army.
In early March, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced that the Transportation Security Administration had signed a $100 million contract with NCS Pearson, a Minnesota test-scoring company, to recruit over 30,000 new airport screeners.
- Scramble to hire, train airport screeners could undermining system.
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) June 8, 2002 700+ words
...The federal government must hire and train more than 280 airport screeners every day for the rest of the year to meet a pair of deadlines...Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which says all airport screeners must be federal workers by Nov. 19, and that all bags...
- At San Jose, Calif.-Area Airports, Hundreds Protest Airport-Screeners' Rule.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) February 20, 2002 700+ words
...at San Jose and Oakland airports. About seven out of 10 airport screeners in the Bay Area are Filipino immigrants. Most found airport...following the law. We can be trusted." Inside the San Jose airport, screeners worked in silence. Some said they were afraid that joining...
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- Magazine article from: Security Management Straw, Joseph April 1, 2007 700+ words
...in the field and in continuing training programs so that airport screeners can better detect suspicious objects. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...percent of the images, failure rose to 16 percent. For airport screeners, the challenge is compounded by the rarity of threat objects...
- Airport screeners denounce federal changes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Ashley, Guy September 30, 2002 700+ words
...testing process is stacked against immigrant screeners. Ramiro said an ability to speak English is already a requirement of airport screeners, but that new federal testing procedures will closely monitor prospects' diction when evaluating their English skills...
- Airport Screeners a Step Closer to Bargaining Rights
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joe Davidson July 10, 2009 700+ words
...Homeland Security Committee members with rebuttal arguments against any attempt to weaken or kill legislation that would allow airport screeners the right to bargain collectively. But Republican opponents apparently knew a fight would be futile. The 13 to 6 vote...
- Airport screeners.(U.S. Regulatory Issues)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Security Management Anderson, Teresa September 1, 2004 700+ words
Airport screeners. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued guidelines for airports to use in deciding whether to retain federal...
- Defiant Airport Screeners Join Union, Begin Challenge to Ban on Bargaining.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 4, 2003 700+ words
...Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 4--The American Federation of Government Employees swore in the first group of airport screeners as union members yesterday in a public act of defiance toward the Bush administration. The Transportation Security Administration...
- BELEAGURED FILIPINO AIRPORT SCREENERS PLACE HOPE IN ARROYO.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News November 4, 2002 700+ words
...Liberties Union in filing a petition for injunction to stop the enforcement of the US requirement for the federalized job of airport screeners. We agree that experience matters in securing US airports and planes," the President said in her speech. While this...
