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COPYRIGHT 2002 San Jose Mercury News
Byline: Aaron Davis
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ A federal judge ruled Friday that the government cannot limit airport security screening work only to U.S. citizens, a decision that gives hope to hundreds of legal immigrants fired from checkpoint jobs across the country.
The decision does not overturn any of the dismissals, and it apparently won't delay plans to lay off more than 400 non-citizen screeners at San Francisco Airport on Tuesday.
But if the preliminary injunction issued Friday becomes permanent, it would allow those and other non-citizens to apply for jobs with the new Transportation Security Administration and a few...
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