They're not earning sub-minimum wages. They have false papers and make over minimum wage*. They're also kinda thrifty. If you cook all your food from scratch, $100 a month covers your food bill. They convert single family homes into dormitories, so housing expenses are minimal. Bottom line is that out of the typical $15K to $20K annual income, they can probably save at least 50% of that sum a year.
* Employers don't mess around over minimum wage. All it takes is one whistle-blower (who gets a share of the penalties), and they're up to their necks in restitution, fines and maybe even prison time. The Labor Department has gone to the trouble of taking trips to foreign countries to locate and reimburse illegal alien workers for being paid sub-minimum wages.
<><> illegals' membership in radical America-hating organizations planning armed conflict to takeover the American SW,
<><> using multiple stolen Social Security numbers,
<><> cashing multiple US govt checks,
<><> engaging in voter fraud to solidify Third World power on Us soil,
<><> voting under several identities,
<><> encouraging illegals to vote using multiple identities,
<><> using multiple identities to get US govt freebies,
<><> pocketing welfare, food stamps, EITC refunds, SSI, free medical care, Section 8 housing, UI, Workmen's comp under several identities?
<><> receiving hefty SS checks by claiming "asylum"
<><> falsifying apps to get fraudulent sub-prime mortgages,
<><> making false claims on IRS forms in order to get multiple EITC refunds?
<><> using illegal driver's license,
<><> wire-transferring money back to Mexico; the Third World,
<><> having offshore accounts under multiple identities,
<><> illegals as paid agents of foreign governments,
<><> cashing multiple govt checks under several identities in these categories:
UI, SSI, Workmen's Comp,
TANF (temporary assistance to needy families),
WICS (food assistance),
subsidized Section 8 shelter,
ObamaPhone subsidies,
Utility Assistance subsidies,
School breakfasts/lunches/snacks subsidies,
$5000 a year EITC checks per identity.
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Better add this in, too:
<><> A Miami paper reported that cargo flights carried millions of US greenbacks in suitcases, port cargo containers, and money bags, from Mexico to Texas, and then to Miami Intl Airport, on a routine schedule.
From there, authorities say, the money was laundered by two Mexican businessmen through a Miami-Dade check-cashing company that used the dollars to cash the payroll checks of undocumented workers at local supermarkets.
It was all part of a Mexican-Miami bulk-cash network that federal agents say may be funded by drug profits south of the US border.
The culprits--Martin Diaz and Enrique Guerra--arrested earlier this month, appeared before a federal magistrate on charges of conspiring to launder US dollars for the purpose of “harboring illegal aliens’’ in this country. (Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...