re: #127 Fozzie Bear

I highly doubt that they aren’t aware their workers are illegal. Honestly. If you are hiring day laborers for cash, you know what you are doing. If you are hiring people who cannot complete W2 forms for lack of a SS#, you know what you are doing.

I am extremely skeptical of any claims of ignorance on this front, as I know how much paperwork is involved in hiring an employee legally, and unless the applicant has forged documents and has managed to “steal” an SS#, it just isn’t going to slip past your notice unless you are trying not to notice.

Hiring cash under-the-table labor is illegal. Hiring undocumented labor to avoid payroll taxes is illegal. The employers of illegal immigrants are as large a part of the problem as the immigrants themselves, imo. They are manifestly worse, because they are exploiting those who have few options.

It’s just wrong, and we should be vigorously investigating and shutting such businesses down.

Hiring illegal aliens does no harm to the illegal alien hired. If it did, he wouldn’t take the job. The people most directly hurt are the ones who might have got the job but for the competition.