Immigration Audit Takes Toll on SEIU members

[SMR 368]

Am I the only person that noticed this lady is making $13.22 per hour? That sure isn't going to take you out of the rat race but it also isn't a sub minimum wage that no American would work for. I know a lot of documented workers who work for less. Either that means the employers were saving money by not paying payroll taxes, in which case I don't think it should be too difficult to prosecute them, or the whole line about illegals being cheaper doesn't hold up.

[Darnell 8,478]

DeAnne must be feeling like sh|te recently, as 10 of her clients are being slammed by ICE. Yay !

[peejay 327]

Am I the only person that noticed this lady is making $13.22 per hour? That sure isn't going to take you out of the rat race but it also isn't a sub minimum wage that no American would work for. I know a lot of documented workers who work for less. Either that means the employers were saving money by not paying payroll taxes, in which case I don't think it should be too difficult to prosecute them, or the whole line about illegals being cheaper doesn't hold up.

Labor is market driven. Flood the market and wages fall. But in any case the bigger question is why is an illegal alien working using fraudulent documents in a job that obviously requires it and why the SEIU represents large numbers of illegal workers?

The answer to the first question is that there is no mandatory system such as E-Verify to screen people that are ineligible to legally work in the USA. The answer to the second question is that the union is more interested in dues into their treasury than whether the worker is illegal.

Also, why would the contractor use union labor instead of non-union? They could charge the customer the same rate and pocket the difference. That question I don't have an answer for.