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To: SwinneySwitch

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if you're employed illegally, do you have legal recourse if your employer decides not to pay you? Isn't that sort of like me trying to get the authorities involved if I don't get my share of a bank heist?

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5 posted on 07/30/2007 12:45:10 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)

I Love your analysis, it’s spot on.

17 posted on 07/30/2007 1:01:26 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Famously frisky)

Isn’t that sort of like me trying to get the authorities involved if I don’t get my share of a bank heist?
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LOL. Or going to the cops after you’ve had your stash stolen.

20 posted on 07/30/2007 1:10:09 PM PDT by dmz

...or calling the cops because your weed was stolen?

31 posted on 07/30/2007 1:37:55 PM PDT by RockinRight (Fred Thompson once set fire to a crowd of liberals simply by smoking a cigar and looking upon them)

>>Maybe I'm missing something here, but if you're employed illegally, do you have legal recourse if your employer decides not to pay you? Isn't that sort of like me trying to get the authorities involved if I don't get my share of a bank heist?<<

Common sense would say you are correct, but "our" government has thrown common sense out. In Houston, I would assume that 99% of these "unpaid immigrants" are illegal.

In Houston, a national worker's advocacy group opened an office near downtown in April to recover wages lost by mostly immigrant workers. The Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center is handling cases of wage loss mostly among immigrants hired by small businesses, contractors and individuals.

But if an immigrant — undocumented or not — is working for an employer with revenues exceeding $500,000 annually, a complaint can be referred to the U.S. Department of Labor's wage and hour division.

In the department's Houston district, the number of immigrants bringing wage complaints has risen dramatically, with 842 seeking back pay in fiscal 2006. That is up from the 371 in 2005 and 172 the year before, according to the Labor Department.

In the Houston district, the department identified $2.9 million in back wages owed to immigrants in fiscal 2006, up from $607,000 the year before. For 2006, the department collected backwages of $475,000 owed to 453 immigrant workers.

44 posted on 07/30/2007 9:29:06 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Illegals: representation without taxation--Citizens: taxation without representation)

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