ICE chief of staff resigns amid discrimination allegations

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CNN:

 

Susan Candiotti

9/1/12

 

(CNN) -- The chief of staff to the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned Saturday, an ICE official said, amid allegations that she helped create a culture of sexual discrimination against men.

 

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The move comes on the heels of a job discrimination lawsuit filed by the head of the ICE office in New York against the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

 

In the suit, New York ICE chief James Hayes claims he was passed over for promotions in favor of less-qualified women, some of whom used to work for Napolitano when she was governor of Arizona. As part of his lawsuit, Hayes cites behavior by Barr in an attempt to prove an alleged culture of sexual discrimination against men, according to Hayes' lawyer, Morris Fischer of Maryland.

 

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