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.@USEEOC cases paint a disturbing picture of how American workers — typically black, but sometimes white — are systematically passed over for manual labor jobs in favor of Hispanics, who are usually foreign-born where these cases predominate.

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@USEEOC Hamilton Growers, doing business as @SouthernValley, was sued by @USEEOC in 2011.

"All you Americans are fired," one manager told a group of 80 who were let go at the same time.

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@USEEOC @SouthernValley J&R Baker Farms was sued by @USEEOC in 2014.

When the agricultural season began in the fall of 2012, nearly all American workers were fired "within a few days ... for violating undisclosed work rules."

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@USEEOC @SouthernValley When Mount Vernon Holdings purchased a @BestWestern in 2007, new management began replacing the hotel's black housekeepers with Hispanics.

According to @USEEOC, one manager "expressed her preference for hiring Hispanics as housekeepers."

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@USEEOC @SouthernValley @BestWestern When a warehouse in began using a new employment agency called @ParamtStaffing to fill its daily work crew, they "essentially replaced the African Americans with Hispanics," according to the @USEEOC.

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@USEEOC @SouthernValley @BestWestern @ParamtStaffing According to a 2013 @USEEOC lawsuit, Prestige would discard applications from non-Hispanic blacks.

Staff meetings were conducted in Spanish only, and one black driver who did manage to get hired would be sent home early.

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@USEEOC @SouthernValley @BestWestern @ParamtStaffing In 2011, @USEEOC sued Century Shree Corp, owners of a Hampton Inn.

The owners told the general manager that they "preferred that the maids be Hispanic because in their opinion Hispanics worked harder," while "American" employees are lazy.

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