The Department of Justice is teaming up with the Department of State to punish companies that favor foreign visa workers over "qualified" U.S. citizen workers.
The new partnership allows the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs to share information about employers "that may be engaging in unlawful discrimination, committing fraud or making other misrepresentations" by picking foreign visa workers over U.S. workers.
The visas in question include H-1B, H-2A and H-2B visas.
The announcement comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by the Civil Rights Division's Immigrant and Employee Rights Section in Colorado against a company that allegedly discriminated against U.S. workers in favor of H-2A visa workers. That division of the Civil Rights Division launched an initiative in February to start bringing punishments against companies engaging in such an activity and the Colorado lawsuit is its first.
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