President Biden’s nominee for the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, Julie Su, directed state employees to not comply with federal immigration law when she led California’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under former Gov. Jerry Brown.
Su issued two memos to her then-employees instructing them not to comply with requests made by ICE and Border Patrol agents, one in May and July of 2017. In her July 7, 2017, memo obtained by The Center Square, she wrote, “a worker’s immigration status is irrelevant in determining whether an employer has violated state labor laws.”
Su also said in the memo, “there is no doubt the presence of federal immigration agents in our offices would have a substantial chilling effect on the willingness of workers to report labor law violations” and would cause “considerable harm” to workers.