Thread: It’s No Fun Employing An Illegal Alien

It’s No Fun Employing An Illegal Alien
By Greg L | 26 June 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics, Crime | 35 Comments

In order to roll out Verizon FIOS on-schedule, Verizon hires a bunch of contractors, who then hire their own subcontractors that avail themselves of the cheap illegal alien labor that Verizon has learned it cannot directly employ. Apparently these contractors manage to fulfill their need for cheap labor by swinging by day labor sites, where 75-95% of the labor force is comprised of illegal aliens. No pesky forms to fill out, no witholdings to be made, it is an easy way for these folks to evade federal tax regulations, laws prohibiting the employment of illegal aliens, and evade Verizon’s training requirements. This would work pretty well, except you got to actually pay these day laborers. When you don’t, they break their silence about how they are being exploited, and start bringing some rather unwelcome press attention.

Of course CASA de Maryland, the taxpayer-supported entity that helps ensure these illegal aliens can receive their back pay, has got to be very careful about what questions the day laborers answer, lest they come clean about their legal status in this country:

When ABC 7 reporter Andrea McCarren tried to ask one of the day laborers protesting if they were in the country illegally or if the subcontractors were hiring illegally, she was interrupted by a CASA de Maryland lawyer. They said McCarren couldn’t ask the question.

Oh, no. You can’t actually wonder about whether this is just the tip of the iceberg of rampant lawless behavior. That wouldn’t be politically correct, and it might possibly endanger the millions of taxpayer dollars that Montgomery County and the State of Maryland provide to CASA de Maryland every year which they use to support the wanton and reckless violation of federal law.

What I find particularly stunning here is that according to the ABC 7 report, day laborers have won judgments against Verizon contractors of more than $200,000 for their failure to pay day laborers. IRS rules require witholdings be made whenever someone is paid more than $600 in a calendar year, which should be a huge red flag for the IRS to audit these contractors, now that there’s a court transcript to document possible state and federal tax evasion. If these contractors failed to comply with the requirement to complete an I-9 form for these workers that they didn’t bother to pay, that would be a separate federal felony, particularly if these workers turned out not to be quite documented. This is the ultimate in low-hanging fruit, as you have testimony under oath and documents already admitted into evidence that should be sufficient to establish a basis for state and federal felony prosecutions.

These contractors seem to violate every law and ordinance they can. They harbor illegal aliens in overcrowded single family residences in places like Sterling Park. They unlawfully employ illegal aliens, fail to withold taxes on these unlawful employees, and then don’t even bother to pay them. If ever there was a cause to employ laws prohibiting Racketerring and Corrupt Organizations, this would have to be it. So when is law enforcement actually going to bother to enforce the law here?

It better be pretty darned quick. This is outrageous.
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Once the government gets their collective head out of its collective behind and starts prosecuting these employers of illegal aliens, NO ONE in their right mind will want to hire an illegal alien. So what's the bloody holdup?!?!

I would venture to say these very employers don't abide by many rules and are more afraid of citizen employees turning them in than illegals. They just want to make the bucks and don't care beyond that. The system is set up with so many outs for them.... citizen, illegal, doesn't matter......illegals are just more likely to stay quiet because they have the most to loose. Yet citizens are pretty much silenced because they don't have the money to take them to court.

If ever there was a cause to employ laws prohibiting Racketerring and Corrupt Organizations, this would have to be it. So when is law enforcement actually going to bother to enforce the law here?




This is just a thought, but if the American public was forceful enough to bring amnesty crashing down around the ears of IAs, their advocates, big business, and the multitude of corrupt pols endorsing it....not once, but numerous times..... then why can't we use that same force to get the ball rolling with this?

Why aren't we launching a major campaign to pressure the appropriate agencies to go after tax payer funded criminal organizations such as Casa de Maryland and pursue companies like Verizon and their subcontractors under RICO?

We already know that nothing is going to be done unless we demand it. We've done that and made terrific strides. I just think that maybe the same tactic is called for here as well.

Verizon's doing this in PA too. Where is ICE?