Posted on 11/28/2004 5:49:24 PM PST by Constitution Day
You are so right. All you have to do is drive out to the Wal-Mart on the weekends to see the change.
I know of what I speak: I work in Wilson and live not far from Tarboro.
Keep 'em coming!
{ahem, mind out of gutter please}
And those are the natives!
I am deeply worried about you my good friend!
We had day laborers long before we had illegal immigrants. They are paid like independent contractors, not like employees. Citizen or not, they never have taxes deducted, they receive 1099s if they are paid more than a certain amount during the year by the same person. Minimum wage laws don't apply. It's all perfectly legal to pay them with a $50 bill.
Do you know someone who is jealous of day laborers? Maybe someone sleeping under a bridge?
Are they "employees" or "independent contractors"? If they are employees, they and their employers are committing criminal offenses much more serious than being an undocumented laborer.
Then the third party firms have to satisfy the IRS. The IRS audits their tax returns and compares them to the 1099s.
Btt
LOL!
well of course its "illegal", but its still a routine thing, even for legal residents/citizens, and more so for illegals.
I can only tell you that at least here in the northeast, in the NY metro suburbs, there are large numbers of day laborers - they find steady work here, they congregate in transportation centers like train and bus stations, they rent apartments, etc. and they aren't getting 1099s, I can assure you.
If she has a green card she's been granted lawful permenant residence. But how? Through a work petition?
"found that the state's foreign-born population jumped from 373,000 in 2000 to 641,000 in March."
We got that many in New York City alone. Would have been close to a million, had they not started moving to the suburbs.
Do you know someone who is jealous of day laborers? Maybe someone sleeping under a bridge?Given the choice between a smelly wino and a hard-working, sober and clean illegal alien, who would YOU hire... I used to hire guys to help me with my lawn when I lived in Houston -- where you expect people to speak Spanish, and I just didn't ask. Geeze, a guy willing to help cut some brush for 30 bucks was a guy willing to cut some brush. I live and work in Mexico (legally, though there are plenty of gringo illegal aliens on this side of the border... they must have crossed the Rio Bravo doing the backstroke!) and know plenty of people who worked north of the border "sin papeles". A lot of these guys work for the same company that their uncles, grandfathers, cousins worked for over the years... almost a family tradition, and just a way to sock a few dollars away for future investments or educational expenses (I know a CPA who canned fish in Alaska for two very cold salsa-less years). I know some here will repeat the old mantra, "they broke the law, therefore they are criminals", but these are hard-working guys, taking a risk to better themselves and their families and are as honest and upright people as you'd ever meet. The proposed "guest worker" programs might be salable to these kind of guys, though Mexicans remember the problems with the old Bracero Program and there are still some WWII era guys waiting for their set-asides. One issue that doesn't seem to have been addressed -- and it probably should be addressed before jumping into a new program: one assumes most "guest workers" are going to be young guys. Young guys generally like young women... sometimes they marry them and sometimes they have children. Are husbands and fathers to be repatriated? And, what will our "family values" people say about separating families, and abandoning children?
I suppose so. If I recall, her school system helped her out.
Anyway, she's been here since 1999. She even got her Master's degree since then.
I vote for agenda.
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