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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that immigrants are protected by laws from employment discrimination, including harassment based on national origin:

Examples of potentially unlawful conduct include insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, “Go back to where you came from,” whether made by supervisors or by co-workers.

- Discrimination Because of a Person’s or His or Her Ancestor’s Place of Birth
- Discrimination Based on Association with Persons of a Different National Origin Group
- Practices May Have an Adverse Effect on Particular National Origin Groups
- Harassment Based on National Origin
- Discrimination Based on Accent
- Speak-English -Only Rules
- Discrimination Based on Appearance