February 12, 2012
Firing of Workers Who Failed to Provide Documents Divides Pomona College
David Zentz for The Chronicle
Christian Torres, a cook at Pomona College since 2005, was one of 17 workers fired after someone complained to the Board of Trustees that the college had failed to check the immigration status of its employees.
When Pomona College fired 17 employees in December because they could not prove they were in the United States legally, it created a divisive controversy on the campus at the same time that it raised a tricky question: How can a college best handle obeying a law that many students and faculty members disagree with?
Even David Oxtoby, Pomona's president, has called the situation at the Claremont, Calif., institution ironic, given the college's commitment to promoting Latino culture and
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