mmigration Audits Drive Illegal Workers Underground

Wall St J ^ | August 14, 2011 | MIRIAM JORDAN

[Steelfish]

AUGUST 15, 2011 Immigration Audits Drive Illegal Workers Underground

BY MIRIAM JORDAN

MINNEAPOLIS—In 2009, Alba and Eugenio were making almost twice the federal minimum wage, plus benefits, cleaning a skyscraper for a national janitorial company. With two toddlers, the Mexican couple enjoyed relative prosperity in a tidy one-bedroom duplex in a working-class neighborhood here.

Late that year, federal agents audited employee records of ABM Industries Inc., forcing it to shed all the illegal workers on its payrolls in the Twin Cities. Among them was the couple, undocumented immigrants who had worked at ABM for more than a decade.

[ApplegateRanch]

Late that year, federal agents audited employee records of ABM Industries Inc., forcing it to shed all the illegal workers on its payrolls in the Twin Cities.

GOOD! More jobs for poor, unemployed Americans; in Minneapolis, that probably means blacks, the biggest victims of illegal workers.

The Irony Award last week went to the sob story posted about a deported Mexican in Tijuana: because he doesn't have Mexican papers, he can't get work in Mexico.

[Bikkuri]

Alba had been promoted to vacuuming and emptying waste baskets for $12.97 an hour.

That is more money than I made as a Deputy Sheriff :O
You mean, all I had to do was vacuum and empty trash!?

[Bikkuri]

ABM, which employs nearly 100,000 nationwide, paid $108,000 in civil penalties, according to ICE, which declined to elaborate. It was able to replace all the undocumented workers, the spokesman said.

[algernonpj]

If they are working here, they are taking jobs Americans need.

If they are not working here, they are taking tax dollars and benefits Americans need.

Either way, they are sucking off the system.

And often if they're working they're working at salaries that are so low, they qualify for tax dollars and freebies - taking American jobs while suppressing American salaries.

[mrmeyer]

[tdscpa]

Yes, somewhere in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, or Caleefornia.

We can not afford the freight to do the catch and release “conservation” thing. It's not like they are an “endangered species”.

[tdscpa]

Only if they pay $.50/mile to be taken to the border. If they can’t afford to go home, they have to go underground.