Good point which leads to another question. What about unwinding an operation such as this? There is income tax to pay, Social Security tax to pay, state income taxes to pay, multiple state sales taxes to pay and on and on. Even one person traveling around doing something such as this runs across a plethora of permits and regulations. Sometimes bonds are required.
And these people simply were told to leave and no one is interested in seeing they obeyed various state, local and Federal tax and other laws? That makes no sense.