Posted on 08/14/2011 9:10:31 PM PDT by 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.
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Ten yrs and they never applied to become legal?
I have NO sympathy for them.
Cry me a river the size of the Rio Grande.
Illegal Boo-hoo-hoo ping!
Hey Miriam! What the hell is a “working-class neighborhood”? Is that where the little people live? The unwashed masses?
I wonder how many Americans would live that comfortably in Mexico. NONE
I feel no sympathy for people who have taken things illegaly for ten years.
And did ABM Industries have to pay huge fines and did the owner have to go to jail for breaking US laws?
We'll not know the 'rest of the story' until someone with a password fills us in...
Hey they got away with it for 10 years. Now the party’s over. Hopefully they squirreled enough away to live like kings when they get deported back home.
here’s the typical ILLEGAL ALIEN MSM story...
“(insert fictitious Mexican name or names) have been working at (insert fictitious American company) for (insert years of them working)..”
What they don’t tell you in this article is the thousands of dollars this family got in free services from the City, County, State and Feds.
They always convienently leave those facts out.
Cut off their toes, and send em home. (REAL ID)
Hah! What they got is hardly a fraction. The company that hired them made out like bandits. Skyscraper window cleaners, the legit ones anyhow, make at the very least 3-4 times what these clowns were taking in. They made insane money billing full price. Jail and fines should be in order.
The President of ABM was on an episode of “Undercover Boss.” I wish this issue had arisen on camera, but CBS would never allow that to be seen.
They should driven back to their own countries.
Like cattle.
We should give them six months to ‘settle their affairs’... if they are still in the US after six months, we seize all their assets.
They’ve got it all...new cars, paying cash for houses...and they’re laughing at us.
“We should give them six months to ‘settle their affairs’... if they are still in the US after six months, we seize all their assets.”
worth repeating.
If they are not working here, they are taking tax dollars and benefits Americans need.
Either way, they are sucking off the system.
6 feet under?
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