Probe Fingers 1,800 Americal Apparel Workers

HA!  You do what you need to to get them website viewers, Yahoo! News.  We’re all out here grindin’.  This fun headline went up yesterday.

Oh, the story is that a bunch of American Apparel workers – a full third of them actually – may be illegal immigrants.  Presumably what will happen is that they will be fired and replaced with more illegal immigrant workers.

Details of the story, if you care, plus a few more hilarious actual headlines, after the jump…  

A U.S. federal probe has found that about a third of American Apparel’s factory workers in the Los Angeles area had supplied suspect or invalid records and were not authorized to work in the United States.

The findings, from a January 2008 federal investigation, may deal a blow to the corporation’s image as a proponent of immigration reform.

But the company said on Tuesday the potential loss of those 1,800 workers would have no significant impact on its results.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that some 1,600 current employees at American Apparel’s Los Angeles factories appeared to have gained employment due to “suspect and not valid” eligibility documentation, the company said in a filing.

Source: Yahoo! News via Dan, an incorrigble prober of the internet and fingerer, in general.