(CA) State GOP fires worker facing immigration problems

[RamboLiberal]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The Canadian political operative hired by the California Republican Party on a coveted H1B visa to do campaign consulting has been fired after it was revealed he was apparently working in violation of immigration law.

The dismissal, announced this week, came after The Chronicle reported last month that Christopher Matthews apparently violated federal immigration law when he also earned money from a second employer.

Matthews, a Canadian citizen, was hired last year as deputy political director for the California Republican Party, with responsibility for handling campaign operations and information technology for the country's largest state GOP operation, U.S. Department of Labor records showed.

Matthews "no longer works for the California Republican Party," Hector Barajas, a state party spokesman, confirmed Thursday.

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Matthews was hired for his job by Michael Kamburowski, an Australian citizen who in 2007 was named the state GOP's chief operations officer. Kamburowski resigned the $130,000-a-year post after The Chronicle reported last year that he had sued federal officials who jailed him in 2004 for alleged visa violations and attempted to deport him


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/06/MNPJVEV3S.DTL

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:rofl: And why couldn't they find a qualified U.S. citizen GOP'er?

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Was he doing the dirty work for the Republican party

that no American citizen wanted to do?

:rofl:

[harmonicon]

2. too good

silly Californians have been building a fence on the wrong border this whole time!