Immigrants axed by American Apparel

A Los Angeles?based clothing company is laying off 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming weeks at the behest of the Obama administration. And it’s not just any company ? it’s American Apparel, a business that has made a name for itself for paying its workers a better-than-fair wage and offering in-factory massages. (And, yes, they have also made a name for themselves with their over-the-top “sex sells” advertising.) Are the layoffs at American Apparel the start of a larger storm to come, in which more companies will be asked to let immigrants go? New York Times immigration reporter Julia Preston gives us the details.