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Justice Department Suing SpaceX For Discrimination

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Justice Department Suing SpaceX For Discrimination
In April, the U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) announced the initial launch of 10 of 28 planned satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. for the Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layers of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The SpaceX Falcon 9 carried the satellites (SDA Photo)

The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a lawsuit against SpaceX alleging discrimination against asylees and refugees in the company’s hiring over a nearly four-year period in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. “Our investigation found that SpaceX failed to fairly consider or hire asylees and refugees because of their citizenship status and imposed what amounted to a ban on their hire regardless of their qualification, in violation of federal law,” Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general of the DoJ’s…

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