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Related From 2019: You can now be fined up to $250,000 if you call someone an ‘illegal alien’ in New York City[1] [1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/us/nyc-ille
by throwaway803453 6y ago
Related From 2019: You can now be fined up to $250,000 if you call someone an ‘illegal alien’ in New York City[1]
[1]https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/us/nyc-illegal-alien-discrimination-guidance/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/us/nyc-illegal-alien-discrimi...
Perhaps the stories at the time conflated discrimination with mere use of the phrase if that is what you meant by good/not true.
- AshWolfy 6y agothis only applies in workplaces, to landlords, or providers of public accommodations, and this only applies to harassment, its like saying hate crime legislation makes it illegal to be bigoted whenever something sounds this absurd, read past the headline and you usually find whats actually going on is a lot more reasonable
- eru 6y agoThe first sentence of that story says: > New York City has banned the term "illegal alien" when used "with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person," the city said. That sounds like an important qualification, but I suspect in praxis intent is hard to (dis)prove so it would probably depend on the judge and precedents?