I caught a contractor hiring illegals...but I needed back up that I didn't have. Here's how it went:

I'm in the grocery line, and I notice behind me is an obvious contractor, with measuring tape and phone hooked on his belt. He has a shirt on which has the name of a construction company and it said Syracuse, New York on the pocket.

Suddenly an went off in my mind. I turned around with the sweetest smile I could muster up and said, "OH, Syracuse, NY !! Are you down here helping with the hurricane damage !!??" He smiled in a proud and friendly way and said "Yes!!" I said, "I can't thank you enough, that hurricane caused a lot of damage!!" He said, "Yes it did."
I said, "Well thank you for all the work you're doing, it's so great that people are coming here to help!" (That's how I looked)

Then I turned around for an instant as though I was finished talking, AND THEN I turned around again as though I just remembered something. I said, "This reminds me of something.....I have a friend who was asking me this question, which I couldn't answer for her....but maybe you can answer it.|"

"My friend has her cousin here visiting from another country. She said he really wanted to get a job while he's here, and she asked me if it would be possible for him to do hurricane work even though he doesn't have the legal papers to do that. I told her that I had no idea about that. Would you know the answer to that ?!?!

He said, "Well, I have a lot of Mexicans....then all of a sudden he stopped...and he looked at me JUST LIKE THIS : .
It was as though ALL of a sudden he realized that I had caught him red handed!! He started stumbling on his words, so I grabbed back control of the situation and said...."Well, I guess I'll just have to call some government number to get the answer for this. Thank you anyway, and have a nice day!"

Now imagine if I could have had a couple of ICE agents waiting outside.
I could catch 15-20 of these characters everyday at the grocery store.

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