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The Federal Government continues to battle against American business. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), just another multiple branch of the Federal Government, is suing a private American business for firing Hispanic and Asian employees. The employees were let go, due to their inability to speak any English. The EEOC is suing the American company on grounds, stating the English-language requirement is discrimination.   Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. is being sued by the EEOC, by accusation of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Act prohibits discrimination based on “national origin”. This should also include the “linguistic characteristics of national origin group”. Common sense should dictate a difference in an individual unable to perform their work due to not understanding the language, and having a difference in linguistic characteristic. However, the Federal Government does not rule on common sense.

“That’s ludicrous and an overreaching of government,” Irene Garcia told CNSNews.com. “If you are a private company in the United States, you should be able to require your employees to speak English.”  Irene Garcia is a blog editor and Spanish media liaison for Judicial Watch.

John C. Hendrickson, Chicago Regional Attorney for EEOC, said the Green Bay-based company’s English requirement is “superficial”.

"Our experience at the EEOC has been that so-called 'English only' rules and requirements of English fluency are often employed to make what is really discrimination appear acceptable. But superficial appearances are not fooling anyone,” Hendrickson said in the release. “When speaking English fluently is not, in fact, required for the safe and effective performance of a job, nor for the successful operation of the employer’s business, requiring employees to be fluent in English usually constitutes employment discrimination on the basis of national origin — and thus violates federal law.”

Garcia counters Hendrickson, explaining the necessity of speaking English for Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. and those employees “were not able to speak English at any kind of level that would be considered proficient.” “In this case some English is necessary to communicate with supervisors and stuff like that, and the EEOC just went after this private company because some employees were being marked down for not having English skills. So that doesn’t really make sense,” she said. This is just another example of a continued effort from Obama Administration in their use of the Federal long arm to assault American businesses. Garcia cited numerous cases in which the EEOC has accused businesses of discriminating by requiring workers to speak English, running background and criminal checks, and enforcing company-wide restrictions on head coverings, including those worn by some Muslim women.

“We’ve seen some decisions that are kind of radical that we haven’t seen in the past, under Republican or Democrat administrations,” she said, claiming the EEOC under the Obama administration is “on a roll.” “We’re seeing a lot of these kinds of law suits using his civil rights law to sue on behalf of all these different causes that I believe violate the spirit of the law,” Garcia explained. “In terms of religious and language rights under the Civil Rights Act, that’s what the administration is using to offer and extend protects when really and truly there’s no place for them [in the law],” she said

While we continue to get assaulted with a flood of children illegal immigration from the south, the Federal Government continues to assault the American citizen business from within.