DECISIONS AND ORDERS RE MOTION TO DISMISS AND MOTIONS FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

On November 28, 1988 the court heard defendant’s Motion for Order Dismissing Intervenor’s Complaint and plaintiff and intervenor’s respective Motions for Partial Summary Judgment. Upon due consideration of the written and oral arguments of the parties and the record herein, the court denies defendant’s motion and grants plaintiff’s and intervenor’s motions.

A. Motion for Order Dismissing Inter-venor’s Complaint.

Defendant Tortilleria “La Mejor” moves for dismissal of intervenor Alicia Castre-jon’s Amended Complaint in Intervention filed on August 8, 1988 on two grounds.

Paragraphs 7 and 8 of the Amended Complaint allege in pertinent part:

Defendant argues that the allegation in paragraph 8 stands in defiance of a court order because it fails to allege the inter-venor’s citizenship status.

The court does not agree. The inter-venor has complied exactly with the court’s order filed on July 28, 1988.

Dismissal of the Amended Complaint in Intervention is also sought pursuant to Rule 37(b)(2)(C), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. In so moving, defendant refers the court to the intervenor’s answers to defendant’s interrogatories concerning in-tervenor’s citizenship status. The inter-venor objected as irrelevant and did not answer interrogatories whether intervenor was a United States citizen when she first filed a complaint with the EEOC, when she first entered the United States, whether she first entered the United States illegally, and whether any United States consulate, embassy or immigration office granted her permission to enter the United States.

As intervenor points out, defendant’s motion to dismiss is premature. Rule 37(b)(2)(C) provides in pertinent part:

As intervenor notes, neither the Magistrate nor this court have issued any order in connection with intervenor’s responses to these interrogatories. The plain language of Rule 37(b)(2)(C) requires a court order compelling discovery before sanctions pursuant to the rule can be imposed. Consequently, dismissal on this ground is denied.

Moreover, because the court concludes that plaintiff and intervenor are entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law in connection with defendant’s second, fifth, seventh and eighth affirmative defenses raised in defendant’s answers to the Amended Complaints herein, see infra, there is no basis for further proceedings in connection with intervenor’s answers to these interrogatories.

B. Motions for Partial Summary Judgment.

Pursuant to their respective amended complaints, the plaintiff and the intervenor have alleged that defendant unlawfully discriminated against intervenor in her employment on the basis of her sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. Both amended complaints allege that intervenor is an individual within the meaning of Section 2000e-2(a)(l). Plaintiff’s amended complaint alleges in paragraph 11:

In answering these amended complaints, defendant alleged the same affirmative defenses, i.e., the second, fifth, seventh and eighth, essentially alleging that the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction and that plaintiff and intervenor lack standing to bring this suit because intervenor “is not an ‘individual’ within the meaning of ... § 2000e-2(a)(l) in that she illegally and without consent of the Government of the United States entered the United States ... and hence was neither a resident [sic] nor a citizen of the United States” and “[a]s an illegal alien, Ms. Castrejon has no cognizable rights under Title 7, USC § 2000e-2(a) and therefore the EEOC is barred from bringing any such suit under Title 7....”

Plaintiff and intervenor have filed motions for partial summary judgment seeking a declaration by the court as a matter of law:

1. Whether Undocumented Alien Workers are Included Within Title VII’s Definition of “Employee” and “Individual. ”

The issue of whether an undocumented or illegal alien employee is entitled to the protections of Title VII against the employment discrimination outlawed therein has never been decided by the courts. As explained in Brock v. Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., 762 F.2d 1349, 1353 (9th Cir.1985);

Turning therefore to the language of Title VII, the term “employee” is defined in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e(f) to mean:

Section 2000e-l provides in pertinent part “[t]his subchapter shall not apply to an employer with respect to the employment of aliens outside any State ..the term “State” being defined in Section 2000e(i) as including “a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Wake Island, the Canal Zone, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.” Also excluded from coverage under Title VII are religious individuals employed by religious entitles to perform work connected with their activities, Section 2000e-l, Communist Party members, Section 2000e-2(f) and persons deemed risks to national security, Section 2000e-2(g).

Moving parties argue that the statute on its face plainly encompasses undocumented alien employees because Title VII’s very specific and limited exemptions from covered employees do not include documented or undocumented aliens and because Title VII sets forth no exemptions based on immigration status or legal capacity to work in the United States.

Defendant responds that the moving parties’ proposed statutory construction of the plain meaning of the statute is an “utterly unwarranted conclusion.” Defendant contends:

However, the statute provides that aliens employed outside of the United States, as defined by statute, are not subject to Title VII. Nowhere does the statute provide that citizens employed outside the United States are exempt from coverage. See Seville v. Martin Marietta Corp., 638 F.Supp. 590, 592 (D.Md.1986); compare Boureslan v. Aramco, 892 F.2d 1271 (5th Cir.), cert. granted sub nom. EEOC v. Arabian American Oil Co., — U.S. —, 111 S.Ct. 40 , 112 L.Ed.2d 17 (1990). Moreover, defendant’s contention that Congress’ failure to explicitly state whether or not undocumented aliens are covered by Title VII means that they are not covered is not supported by canons of statutory construction. Such specificity in stating exemptions strengthens the implication that employees not thus exempted remain within Title VII. See Powell v. United States Cartridge Co., 339 U.S. 497, 517 , 70 S.Ct. 755, 766 , 94 L.Ed. 1017 (1950).

Defendant further argues that because undocumented aliens are not entitled to receive supplemental security income benefits, 42 U.S.C. § 1382c, benefits under Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 42 U.S.C. § 602 (a)(33), Medicaid, 42 C.F.R. § 435.402 , unemployment insurance, 26 U.S.C. § 3304 (a)(14)(A), and food stamps, 7 U.S.C. § 2015 (f), Congress must have intended to deny the protections of our laws, including Title VII, to undocumented aliens. However, as the moving parties reply, the argument is without merit and must be rejected:

“If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court ... must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress.” Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-43 , 104 S.Ct. 2778, 2781 , 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984). However, if the court concludes that the plain meaning of Title VII is ambiguous, the court may look to the interpretation given to it by the EEOC. While the EEOC’s administrative interpretation of the scope of Title VII is not entitled to controlling weight, it is entitled to great deference even though it is not a contemporaneous interpretation of Title VII. See General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125, 140-143 , 97 S.Ct. 401, 410-412 , 50 L.Ed.2d 343 (1976); Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, 422 U.S. 405, 431 , 95 S.Ct. 2362, 2378 , 45 L.Ed.2d 280 (1975).

Here, the court is persuaded that the plain meaning of the statute supports the moving parties. This conclusion is also reinforced by the consistent position of the EEOC.

There is no question that the EEOC has never construed Title VII as excluding undocumented aliens. Since 1981 the EEOC’s Compliance Manual has provided:

EEOC Compliance Manual (CCH), 3806 at 3810-11 (1982). The EEOC has reaffirmed this position since the passage of IRCA. EEOC Compliance Manual (CCH), 3820 at 3813 [sic] (1987).

Other than pointing out that the EEOC’s administrative interpretation is not controlling, defendant presents no cogent argument why the court should not defer to it. Defendant simply states: “If Title VII does not apply extraterritorially, a fortiori, it would not apply — absent an express intent by Congress — to an illegal alien employed within the United States.” However, as noted supra, this argument is without merit.

Supreme Court precedent also supports the inclusion of undocumented aliens within the scope of Title VII.

In Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co., 414 U.S. 86 , 94 S.Ct. 334 , 38 L.Ed.2d 287 (1973), the Supreme Court held that while it would be violative of Section 2000e-2(a)(l) for an employer to discriminate against aliens because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, such as by hiring aliens of certain ancestry but refusing to hire aliens of other ancestry, nevertheless an employer’s refusal to hire any aliens because of lack of American citizenship did not constitute discrimination on the basis of national origin. In so holding, the Supreme Court stated:

Id. at 95, 94 S.Ct. at 340 .

In Sure-Tan, Inc. v. NLRB, 467 U.S. 883, 891-894 , 104 S.Ct. 2803, 2808-10 , 81 L.Ed.2d 732 (1984), the Supreme Court held in pertinent part that the National Labor Relations Act applies to unfair labor practices committed against undocumented aliens.

Because the provisions of Title YII were largely modeled on those of the NLRA, courts frequently are guided by principles developed under the NLRA in construing Title VII. See Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody, supra at 419 and n. 11, 95 S.Ct. at 4372 and n. 11; Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co., 424 U.S. 747, 768-770 , 96 S.Ct. 1251, 1266-67 , 47 L.Ed.2d 444 (1976); Ford Motor Co. v. EEOC, 458 U.S. 219 , 226 n. 8, 102 S.Ct. 3057 , 3062 n. 8, 73 L.Ed.2d 721 (1982). Moreover, cases construing the definitional provisions of one statute are persuasive authority when interpreting nearly identical provisions in another statute. Hyland v. New Haven Radiology Associates, P.C., 794 F.2d 793, 796 (2d Cir.1986); Armbruster v. Quinn, 711 F.2d 1332, 1336 (7th Cir.1981).

Referring to the statement in Sure-Tan, Inc., id. at 893, 104 S.Ct. at 2809, that “[sjince the employment relationship between an employer and an undocumented alien is hence not illegal under the INA, there is no reason to conclude that application of the NLRA to employment practices affecting such aliens would necessarily conflict with the terms of the INA[,]” defendant argues that the precedential value of Sure-Tan, Inc. has been undermined by IRCA’s provisions making it unlawful for an employer to hire an illegal alien without work authorization.

However, the focus of this argument is misplaced. Before it can be determined whether the IRCA alters the scope of Title VII, the scope of Title VII must be determined.

Consequently, the court concludes, as a matter of law, that the protections of Title VII were intended by Congress to run to aliens, whether documented or not, who are employed within the United States.

2. Whether the IRCA Alters the Scope of Title VII.

The moving parties argue that the enactment of the IRCA does not alter the scope of Title VII’s protections available to undocumented aliens. In Patel v. Quality Inn South, 846 F.2d 700 (11th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1011 , 109 S.Ct. 1120 , 103 L.Ed.2d 182 (1989), the Eleventh Circuit reversed the district court opinion reported at 660 F.Supp. 1528 (N.D.Ala.1987). The Eleventh Circuit first held that the district court’s conclusion that Congress did not intend to protect undocumented workers when it passed the FLSA contrary to the overwhelming weight of authority. 846 F.2d at 702-703 . The Eleventh Circuit then held that the passage of the IRCA had no effect on the FLSA’s coverage of undocumented aliens, stating at 704-705:

The moving parties argue that the Ninth Circuit will reach the same result as the Eleventh Circuit with respect to the effect of the IRCA on the application of the NLRA to undocumented aliens. The court agrees. In Local 512, Warehouse & Office Workers’ Union v. NLRB (Felbro), 795 F.2d 705, 722 (9th Cir.1986), the Ninth Circuit held:

Subsequently, in a decision without published opinion, NLRB v. Ashkenazy Property Management Corp., 796 F.2d 479 (9th Cir.1986), the Ninth Circuit affirmed the decision of the NLRB, that Ashkenazy had engaged in unfair labor practices with certain employees who were also undocumented aliens. The NLRB then began looking into the immigration status of the discriminatees partly because of the intervening enactment of the IRCA. The Ninth Circuit, in NLRB v. Ashkenazy Property Management Corporation, 817 F.2d 74, 75 (9th Cir.1987) held:

See also E.E.O.C. v. Hacienda Hotel, 881 F.2d 1504 , 1517-1518 ns. 10 & 11 (9th Cir.1989).

Defendant argues that any extension of the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Patel to support the moving parties’ position that illegal aliens have all civil rights under Title VII is unwarranted. Defendant contends that one case, Bhandari v. First National Bank of Commerce, 829 F.2d 1343 (5th Cir.1987), vacated, 492 U.S. 901 , 109 S.Ct. 3207 , 106 L.Ed.2d 558 (1989), reinstated, 887 F.2d 609 , cert. denied, — U.S. —, 110 S.Ct. 1539 , 108 L.Ed.2d 778 (1990), is sufficient to refute any argument to the contrary. However, Bhandari involves none of the issues raised in Patel and none of the issues before the court in these motions. At issue in Bhandari was whether 42 U.S.C. § 1981 gives a remedy for discrimination against aliens by private persons.

Turning to the specific issue before the court, the moving parties argue that there is nothing in the IRCA or its legislative history indicating that Congress intended to alter the application of Title VII to undocumented workers. In this regard the court is referred to the House Judiciary Report on the IRCA, H.R.Rep. No. 682(I), 99th Cong.2d Sess. 58 (1986), U.S. Code Cong. & Admin. News 1986, pp. 5649, 5662, wherein it is stated:

Thus, the House Judiciary Report specifically reaffirmed the Supreme Court’s holding in Sure-Tan, Inc. and further noted that “the employer sanctions provisions are not intended to limit in any way the scope of the term ‘employee’ in [the NLRA].” The court is also referred to the House Education and Labor Committee Report, H.R.Rep. No. 682 (II), 99th Cong.2d Sess. 8-9 (1986), U.S. Code Cong. & Admin.News 1986, p. 5758 which states in pertinent part:

In addition, the moving parties remind the court of the long-standing EEOC administrative interpretation that Title VII applies to undocumented aliens. See Lorillard v. Pons, 434 U.S. 575, 580-581 , 98 S.Ct. 866, 870 , 55 L.Ed.2d 40 (1978):

Defendant’s opposition to the moving parties’ arguments concerning Congress’ intent with regard to the IRCA is of little assistance in resolving the issue. Defendant argues:

First of all, the failure to name the commentators and provide citations to their comments negates any validity to the apparent argument that commentators consistently view the IRCA as banning for the first time discrimination in employment against non-citizens. The same is true for the failure to give a citation to the comment of Professor Briggs. Secondly, Professor Briggs’ comment is simply wrong, see Sure-Tan, Inc., supra; Espinoza, supra, unless his comment refers to the fact that the IRCA bars discrimination on the basis of citizenship to 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (b).

Secondly, defendant cites no authority for the “rule” of statutory construction set forth above. As noted by the Eleventh Circuit in Patel, supra, 846 F.2d at 704 : “[AJmendments by implication are disfavored. Only when Congress’ intent to repeal or amend is clear and manifest will we conclude that a later act implicitly repeals or amends an earlier one.”

Thirdly, the lack of case law specifically on point is simply not relevant. One can surmise several reasons why there is none, the primary one no doubt being fear of deportation.

The court concludes that Congress did not intend that the IRCA amend or repeal any of the previously legislated protections of the federal labor and employment laws accorded to aliens, documented or undocumented, including the protections of Title VII.

C. Conclusion.

ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED that defendant’s Motion for Order Dismissing Intervenor’s Complaint is denied.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff and intervenor’s respective motions for Partial Summary Judgment are granted and that plaintiff and intervenor are entitled to summary judgment with respect to the relevant affirmative defenses.

. Plaintiff was granted leave to file another amended complaint while these motions were under submission. However, the allegation at issue is identical to that in the prior amended complaint. Consequently, this order will refer to the amended complaint. However, this order is effective with respect to all pleadings amended after these motions were taken under submission. . Defendant’s answer to plaintiffs second amended complaint does not allege these numbered affirmative defenses. The pertinent affirmative defenses now appear to be the fourteenth and the seventeenth affirmative defenses. The fourteenth and the seventeenth affirmative defenses do not set forth the identical allegations as set forth above. However, the court's subject matter jurisdiction and the standing of the EEOC are challenged and the Scheduling Conference Order filed on February 8, 1991 makes clear that the defenses set forth above remain at issue in this action. . The moving parties have filed a statement of additional authority citing Rios v. Enterprise Association Steamfitters Local Union 638 of U.A., 860 F.2d 1168 (2d Cir.1988). In Rios , the Second Circuit holds that illegal aliens who remain in the United States are entitled to backpay awards under Title VII. However, the Second Circuit did not decide the effect of the IRCA on Title VII claims arising after the effective date of IRCA. . See Respondent’s Opposition, to Charging Party’s Motion to Compel Compliance filed in NLRB v. Ashkenazy Property Management Corp., a copy of which has been filed with this court and with respect to which the court takes judicial notice pursuant to Rule 201(b), Federal Rules of Evidence, as requested by amicus curiae. . Defendant has not disputed plaintiffs argument that intervenor is entitled to all relief available under Title VII, including backpay and reinstatement, if liability is found because inter-venor is a legalization applicant and a grandfathered employee under IRCA. The court assumes that this absence of opposition is a concession that plaintiff's position is correct. Because of the court's rulings herein, the court expresses no opinion with respect to plaintiff's alternative arguments that intervenor is entitled to coverage and relief under Title VII in light of the protections extended by IRCA to employees "grandfathered” under IRCA and because she is a "legalization applicant" under IRCA.