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As an aside, I've seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won't you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.
It's crazy. Growing up I was shown so many images of so many people arriving by the boat load at Ellis Island and taught how America is a melting pot and how that's a good thing and our strength.
I've always found it strange that it's considered illegal to work here as a non-citizen but the punishment always falls on the guy doing the work, not the guy who hired him instead of someone legal.
Fail to see how this is different to how when people called the Gestapo when they didn't like their neighbours.
Or called them witches
Ain't gonna work in Maggie's farm no more ...
And why didn't anyone report that company for employing illegal immigrants?
That would be bad for the company, but likely way worse for the illegal immigrants. Being illegaly exploited doesn't make them legal, so reporting the company to the IRS almost definitely gets the workers deported.
Would probably be far more effective. Punish the employer for not taking reasonable checks. Are they paying tax correctly?
You gotta keep that reserve army of labor in line
This is specifically why historically reporting your exploitation has been a path to citizenship for illegal/legal immigrants in the united states. It wasn't a well known endeavor though , and I doubt it's functioning has continued
If we're gonna crack down on illegal immigrant labor, we should start with the people who knowingly employ them. Who's crime is greater, the person who came to this country to seek a better life by the sweat of their brow, or the employer who hired them because they knew they could pay them less and otherwise extort and coerce their labor? Ask me the former is barley, if at all, a crime. Whereas the latter is deserving of a criminal investigation and sentence.
Fucking embarrassing....
This is the same in UK. There are people who believe that illegal immigration is the reason rents are high and jobs are hard to get and also they're all on benefits. It's illegal to rent to or employ an illegal immigrant and I'm not sure how they are supposed to apply for benefits as an illegal immigrant but the narrative persists. Legal immigrants here have zero access to any benefits at all.
But, obviously it is all their fault and not those illegally employing and housing them.
Legal immigrants can claim benefits depending on their immigration status and whether they've been granted recourse to public funds; but the majority work their backsides off.
It's just an excuse to be openly racist.
I'm constantly surprised as I wander thro my middle England life with the people who have had a privileged existence yet still hold ignorant views on immigration.
How about we acknowledge why this historically angry little island of ours has so much immigration and that each decade's wave of influx has positively contributed to our society
CUM OVER ON A BOAT LOVE THEYD HAVE GIV U AN HOUSE BY NOW!
Yeah, OK Margaret, we'll just ignore your middle-aged son who has never worked a day in his life, and your several grandchildren with severe autism.
Looking forward to my front row seat when they see what Reform's "war on wokery" really means for those people.
The point of the system is what it does. None of this is happening by chance or due to one or two bad actors
This is chilling and disgusting
Start calling ICE on Trump supporters.
I wish these posts would dox the company/manager. Bullying them into quitting is the least of what they deserve.
Can't do that without outing the entire staff to ICE, unfortunately.
They already knew, they were doing their job as described in the post.
Yeah that's very fair.
I’m not doubting the events of that London story, but under UK law knowingly employing illegal workers is an unlimited fine plus 5 years jail time, and even employing one by mistake after not doing the correct checks is up to a £60,000 fine, so it was deliberate than it was quite a gamble…
I couldn't tell you. This is almost 20 years ago now and I know my colleague disappeared from one day to the next after payday.
Ah right, the rules changed about 10 years ago.