{"article":{"id":229364,"heading":"LA: immigrant workers protest layoffs, repression","author":"Rafael Azul and D. Lencho","created":"2009-08-05 16:39:04","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:48","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:00:48","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Los Angeles: immigrant workers protest layoffs, repression <br>  <br> By Rafael Azul and D. Lencho  <br>  <br> 4 August 2009 <br>  <br> Over 1,000 immigrant workers and their supporters marched in Los Angeles July 29 in opposition to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies. While the marchers were protesting the increasing use of I-9 audits and E-Verify (both means by which the government checks on the &ldquo;eligibility&rdquo; of workers for employment), mass firings and sweeps against the immigrant working class in industries across the country, the organizers of the protest are merely asking that fired workers be given more notice. <br>  <br> The march began on Alameda Avenue, in the heart of the city&rsquo;s industrial belt of sweatshops that employs hundreds of thousands of workers. The vast majority of the marching workers were employees of American Apparel . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2009\/aug2009\/immi-a04.shtml\">http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2009\/aug2009\/immi-a04.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2009\/aug2009\/immi-a04.shtml","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Los Angeles: immigrant workers protest layoffs, repression\r\nBy Rafael Azul and D. Lencho \r\n4 August 2009\r\nOver 1,000 immigrant workers and their supporters marched in Los Angeles July 29 in opposition to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/a04-immi-prot-480.jpg","filesize":"63.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/08\/229364.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/a04-immi-prot-480.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/a04-immi-prot-480.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2009\/08\/a04-immi-prot-480.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}