Immigrant Woman Fired for Being Undocumented
DALY CITY, CA – 17JULY10 – Teresa Mina was a San Francisco janitor, member of Service Employees Union Local 87, when she was fired because the company said she didn’t have legal immigration documents. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the workers’ employer, ABM building maintenence company, to fire her and 473 because they lacked legal immigration status. Some of the workers, like Mina, are single mothers. Mina worked cleaning downtown office building for four years, and sent money to her mother and three children in Veracruz, Mexico, to support them.
Copyright David Bacon