Chipotle fires hundreds, draws protest

Chipotle Mexican Grill said on Thursday that it had fired a substantial number of the 1,200 employees at its 50 Minnesota restaurants after a federal immigration audit found some were illegal workers.

The circumstances of the firings, which began in early December, sparked a protest by several dozen people around noon on Thursday at a downtown Minneapolis Chipotle restaurant. Minneapolis police arrested eight participants after they chained themselves together inside the restaurant. They were cited for trespassing.

Denver-based Chipotle would not disclose how many Minnesota workers were fired. Protesters said the number was 700. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, which conducted the Chipotle worker audit, declined to comment. However, a source said the number of Minnesota employees fired was closer to 350. Chipotle has apparently replaced the terminated employees. Its Minnesota employment was 1,200 both before and after the firings, said spokesman Chris Arnold.

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Good for them!! Now they just employed about 350 more LEGAL Americans who have families!

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FWIW, I agree it is better to have these jobs (any jobs for that matter) for legal citizens.

the purpose of the demonstration was "to send a message to corporations that they can't sell Mexican culture and Mexican food and sell out Mexican workers."

That's Racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just hope that legals apply...lot of people out of work, now they have to step up to the plate and apply..
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:can't hear

I just spent a week in Mexico and Chipolte is no closer to Mexican food than Taco Bell is, but I do love Chipolte. Have to get a fix once a week.

I wonder if ICE will make an appearance here in Colorado Chipoltes.

outdoor338 wrote: I just hope that legals apply...lot of people out of work, now they have to step up to the plate and apply..
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They said the positions are all already filled. I guarantee they made sure they were all LEGAL Americans this time! That is 350 or so more Americans back to work in jobs that were illegally obtained by illegals! :thumbsup: Now if the rest of America would only follow, we might lower the unemployment rate a few points.

Over a million immigrants land U.S. jobs in 2008-10

only 999650 more to go

And people wonder why states are acting to implement their laws concerning illegals.

Jobs Americans don't want....ya right. I have a kid that would love to work there, she's only 16 and even minimum wage with no benefits is better than sitting around the house asking me for money (which she also doesn't like). WTF is congress doing these days about jobs? Seems like it would be a pretty easy bill to construct and maybe their approval would rise above 11%.