Perhaps if these illegals had come to the USA legally and worked legally, then they would have a better chance of being paid. I have zero sympathy for these individuals. In fact, I hope they tell all their buddies who want to follow them into the USA illegally that this country sucks and you don’t even get paid for the work you do.
This is the results of being in the shadows. One illegal act fosters another one. The contractor shouhd have his ass kicked and the illegal should be forced to pay his own way back home!!!!
This does happen a lot, and the backlash is crime...
The cost of illegal labor is more expensive than one might think.
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If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Well, duh. That’s one of the many advantages to businesses that hire illegals.
Francisco Ramos worked a 40-hour week in June, framing houses in south Houston for promised wages of $320. But on payday, the 26-year-old carpenter got nothing.
I'm confused. I thought the idea of day labor was that you paid/got paid every day. If you get paid at the end of the week are you really "day" labor?
Prosecute the contractors for hiring illegals AND for not paying them. Deport the illegals.
I’m sympathetic to the workers, but since they don’t pay taxes, I don’t think they should be able to use government resources (agencies, courts, etc...) to pursue their cases.
Attention Lefties: That is why citizenship is a special status that must be guarded with and protected. That is why we just don’t give it away, but it must be granted only to those who deserve it and who want it sufficiently they are willing to work for it.
Attention Lefties: That is why people should not come here illegally, for the law cannot and should not protect them. It is one of the good incentives to conduct your affairs legally, and why people who don’t intend to should not want to come here.
I wouldn't want to be one of these employers when he dies though, that's for sure.
So?
let’s see...$320/40 = $8.00
No taxes FICA / SS taken out. No wonder the scumbag builders who hire illegals love them. They wind up paying less than minimum wage (adjusted for taxes).
15 years ago framing jobs around here were paying $18.00 per hour. The price of labor has gone down. Has the price of new home construction gone down? So the scumbag builders who hire illegals are screwing the home owners as well as the rest of us taxpayers in the US.
The IRS is suffering from “wage theft” in the form of tax evasion by these illegal invaders. For the life of me I cannot understand why we don’t go after these people on the same tactics that were used to nab Al Capone. These people are criminals!
No sympathy here.
Hmm ... maybe if more contractors did this the idiots would go home.
Which criminal to cheer on .... decisions .. decisions.
When do we see the headline
Don't hold your breath.
They should not be exploited. This country needs a simple, swift, legal process for bringing workers into the country.
What kind of legal protection can a worker “paid under the table” expect?
How could an American have standing before the courts if he agreed with an employer to cheat the US government out off certain fees, namely income taxes...
Surely there should be no legal recourse, if during the commision of a crime, in this case tax evasion, the co-conspirators have a financial disagreement?
Even Al Capone was not above the law and was brought to justice due to his habit of not paying his taxes, rather than his responsibility for many murders and robberys....
The IRS still takes a dim view to slackers when it comes to the government coffers...
And yet again, an illegal alien is afforded a free pass on a felony?