upyernoz: they’re related because…
upyernoz: they’re related because employer who hire illegals regularly break wage and hour rules. another employee would get a lawyer and go straight to the DOL, but an illegal is usually too afraid of being deported to do anything like that.
Roxanne: Because documented workers have the law on their side (when it comes to the minimum wage, anyway) and undocumented workers do not. Hence, the special connection.
So why not just remove the threat of deportation, instead of devising new legal meaures to punish people just for giving undocumented immigrants a job?