What on earth are you talking about? While the reasonably priced roofers were most probably immigrants, there’s no evidence to suggest they were here illegally. They weren’t hired off the street. They were employees of a reputable licensed and bonded company.
Are you suggesting it’s incumbent on citizens to check the immigration papers of all employees when paying a business for service? Do you check the immigration status of the McDonald’s cashier with the Spanish accent who sells you a burger? The busboy who clears your plate? How about at Walmart? If not, then you’re a hypocrite.
And this business of involuntarily deputizing employers to perform LAW ENFORCEMENT duties — i.e., checking an employee’s immigration status — is an outrageous — and probably illegal under the Constitution — imposition on the citizenry. It’s not my business to determine whether someone is legally in the country, it’s one of the few things government should be doing. And they won’t, so I have to? What nonsense.
You’re mad at me because an American thought he could trade on his blond hair and patriotism to sucker me into overpaying for work. The immigrants did it cheaper. They were probably immigrants because they spoke Spanish. But there is no evidence — none — they were here illegally.
Do you also think employers should be forced to investigate tax returns and garnish wages for the IRS under threat of jail? How about child support payments?
What a solution. You want to make criminals of employers because they won’t “voluntarily” do the government’s job and enforce immigration laws. You want to prosecute your fellow citizens using statutes aimed at the organized crime. Brilliant.
What on earth are you talking about?
***I asked you explicitly:
Are you saying that you’d be willing to be named in a RICO lawsuit that generates treble damages? If so, how do we reach you?
You’re mad at me because an American thought he could trade on his blond hair and patriotism to sucker me into overpaying for work.
***No, I’m mad at the lack of enforcement of immigration law that in effect, allows the undergirding of wages to such an extent that even supposedly legal aliens are working for the crap wage you paid them.
The immigrants did it cheaper. They were probably immigrants because they spoke Spanish. But there is no evidence — none — they were here illegally.
***It does not matter. The fact that there are millions of illegal immigrants drives down the wages of the legal ones and the blonde haired americans you’re so fond of denigrating.