Nosy Poll: Ever have an Illegal Immigrant work for or with you ?

[Doc]

mrbigstuff wrote:
Yes.

I worked with a bunch of Irish and English illegals in the 1980s.

You just reminded me: I once worked with a sweet girl from Canada who overstayed her student visa.

[Gutenberg]

I am sure I have at one time or another. So what?

I am also sure many of my neighbors are undocumented. It doesn't matter to me one way or another. They are nice people who work hard, send their children to school and keep the Catholic churches open on this side of town. I lent a shovel to a neighbor this winter because he was trying to clean his steps with an old piece of shelf. He shoveled my walk for the rest of the storm, which dumped 36 inches on us in two days.

If you are looking for the old Beaver Cleaver model of family where Dad goes to work and Mom stays home to care for the kids and home, and the whole family goes to church on Sunday mornings, check the Latino community.

The neighbors I'm having trouble with are the shiftless boys who inherited a house from their grandparents and are selling drugs out the front door. They're citizens.

[lafinfil]

My neighbor employs two dogs that appear to be from Labrador, but I have never seen their papers.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I worked with someone that I found out later was a felon, is that illegal enough?

[$tevie]

This reminds me, it's a complete tangent but one time I was Googling one of my vendors, I think to find their phone or fax can't remember, and one of the first hits was a list of local sexual offenders because one of their employees was on that list. That was bizarre.

[hal]

I love telling this story... I used to manage a little restaurant in my 20s - the owner was a french immigrant and had no problem hiring illegals (as long as they were recommended by one of his trusted workers).

Late one night, I was counting cash and had piles of cash, receipts and all kinds of stuff strewn about. When I was done counting, I moved a whole pile of paper over the edge of the counter and into the trash.

One of the newly hired mexican dishwashers came by a moment later to grab the trash can to empty it. He came back a minute later showing me the contents of the can (he barely spoke any english) and revealed a pile of CASH. I would have realized eventually what I had done. but this kid didn't hesitate to bring the cash right back to me.

Every penny was accounted for...

great kid as were ALL of the illegals I've ever met.

[Doc]

$tevie wrote:
This reminds me, it's a complete tangent but one time I was Googling one of my vendors, I think to find their phone or fax can't remember, and one of the first hits was a list of local sexual offenders because one of their employees was on that list. That was bizarre.

I've noticed that lately the top hit in many Google searches by zip code will be a list of sex offenders in the area.

[vision63]

They're not even illegal to me. I reject that law. They're just people to me.

[Dennis S]

I agree with vision63.