Oh I’ve been in the ATL airport about 6 times in the last month, and yeah, I hear ole Kasim and his welcome messages played ad nauseum over the intercom.
And I do believe that Georgia has strict laws...and I know that the Bohemians in Asheville are typical far left bleeding heart liberals for sure. But in the Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston Salem areas, and in Atlanta too, the majority of the Hispanics...legal and illegal, work for those national landscape firms and those national home building trac builders and so on. Just so you don’t get too angry about that, those folks are not low paid and they do have taxes withheld.
Like I said, there’s no difference in the paperwork of the legals and illegals.
Those that do casual day labor, of course, do not. But in my experience, and I have some business interests in ATL, this is a small part of the equation.
regarding the with holding........
last month I contracted with an old family firm to re roof my house. I dealt with two of the brothers during pricing and sale. I had contracted with them before, good reputation etc
One day, the roofing materials distributor delivered the shingles and all the other materials to my driveway.
three days later, just before noon several trucks an ten or so Mexicans arrived. One spoke excellent english and talked with me and directed the crew telling them what to do. There was another foreman type that looked after the work in progress and kept everybody working. They really worked hard and fast. They were very skilled.
it turned out that one of the 10 was actually white. he drove a dump truck into which all the refuse shingles etc was loaded. he actually was employed by the family business I contracted with.
all the others and their trucks with tags from several other counties and even states, were employees of what amounts a roofing labor subcontractor. I have no reason to believe that at least 4 of the crew that were essentially laborers got minimum wage or had any with holding. Lots of shenanigans can take place within such a subcontract for what is probably a non licensed business
Since there are no Americans that will do the hot and dirty work, this old line firm has changed the business model. they have a vendor deliver materials and sub out the labor. they essentially become a roofing construction manager...... sweet business
I don’t want to burst your bubble but for awhile the Gwinnett County cops would just pull up in front of a construction site and everybody would take off running. So one of the biggest problems we had when we were trying to get the GA immigration law passed was the big homebuilders and the farmers. They had so many illegals working for them. And still do. The roofing and drywall here and any stonework is pretty much illegals. You get one legal that runs a crew of illegals.
We have that living in the rental next door. One legal and his wife renting the house and then he has his crew of illegals living in the basement. They sneak in and out in the dark like roaches. I couldn’t pick one of them out of a line up. The ones next to us are from El Salvador. They make the Mexicans look almost desirable.