President Donald Trump and acting EEOC Chair Andrea R. Lucas (Getty/EEOC )
Lucas said biases against Americans in hiring is a "large-scale problem in multiple industries," including agriculture, manufacturing and blue-collar jobs. She said this discrimination has significantly contributed to the migrant crisis by motivating aliens to defy U.S. law to get jobs.
Addressing employers directly, Lucas said: "The law applies to you, and you are not above the law."
"If you are part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration crisis or abusing our legal immigration system via illegal preferences against American workers, you must stop," she warned.
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"President Trump is all about fighting for the working Americans," she said. "Part of that is making sure that jobs that people are qualified for they actually have a fair and fighting chance to compete for, as opposed to being automatically discriminated against in favor of importing foreign workers."
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Lucas pointed to the EEOC’s successful track record of advocating for discriminated against American workers by suing the offending employer and at times winning multimillion-dollar cases.
This enforcement mechanism, however, depends on American workers to stand up for their own rights.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seal at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2020. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"It's really important for people to protect their rights," said Lucas. "You can bring a charge, even if you're just an applicant, you don't have to have been an employee and fired, you can say: ‘I applied, I wanted to apply to this business and I believe that they are discriminating against us and against American workers in preference for foreign workers.’
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"We do have a large track record of large-scale, multimillion-dollar cases," she said. "I expect that we're going to continue to see significant cases because the caseload is there."
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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