The general contractor subs out the work. One of the legal immigrants or one of the illegal immigrants starts a business and gets a Tax Identification Number. One need not be a legal immigrant to start a business nor to obtain an TIN from the Internal Revenue Service. The general contractor pays the subcontractor who pays the crimaliens in cash.
The IRS went after Wal-Mart about ten years ago and hit them with a hefty fine for contracting work to crimaliens. But then I Wal-Mart is not much liked by the leftists.
If the IRS would go after the major players in the home construction and the commercial construction industries, including Trump, you would see almost no crimaliens on construction sites.
“If the IRS would go after the major players in the home construction and the commercial construction industries, including Trump, you would see almost no crimaliens on construction sites.”
I’ve long suspected the same. Neither Bush, Clinton, Bush, nor Obama cared to take that route.
And any large farm around harvest time when the fields are full of day laborers.