Speaking of cheap labor....
'Worker pleads guilty to shooting boss to death'
An illegal immigrant who killed his boss last year over a wage dispute in Utah County pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree felony murder. Jesus Hernandez admitted shooting 38-year-old masonry contractor Joseph Crummy at a Lehi subdivision on Jan. 9, 2004. The 33-year-old Mexican national faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced May 3 by 4th District Judge Samuel McVey. In exchange for Hernandez's plea to murder, prosecutors dismissed felony charges of obstructing justice and possession of a gun by a restricted person. Hernandez resorted to murder because Crummy wrote paychecks that bounced and the Utah Labor Commission was deaf to the defendant's complaints, according to testimony at a June 2004 preliminary hearing. A month before the shooting, Hernandez told state labor officials that Crummy's company, Prestige Exteriors, owed him $1,345. A dozen other workers had also received paychecks from Crummy that bounced, according to testimony.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2619986
'Worker pleads guilty to shooting boss to death'
The employers who hire illegals are absolutely lawless. They like to say that they are just responding to 'economic realities' and the 'laws of supply and demand' but they are just criminals who are scoffing at Democratically passed laws and making essentially the same arguments as drug dealers to justify their illegal behavior. While a few are probably duped by the fake documents the vast majority are complicit in the crime and about half are further engaging in tax evasion and the underground cash economy. The employers are criminals and I want them to pay their debt to society. My preference is prison but I'd settle for large fines.
Frankly I've never had much sympathy for a criminal that becomes a victim of his own crime.