Illegal workers: Are they entitled to sue? (For back wages)

[djones520]

But in this case you have a criminal suing a criminal.  Both of them are wrong and should be punished.

Unless and until you make it uncomfortable/unprofitable for both the employer and the employee you will have the same problem.

KC

Then deport the illegals once the affair is done.  No ones saying we want them to stay.  But they did earn their pay.  In the mean time, we can still keep looking for the employers hirin them through standard means.

[Texacon]

Then deport the illegals once the affair is done.  No ones saying we want them to stay.  But they did earn their pay.  In the mean time, we can still keep looking for the employers hirin them through standard means.

This is where we will have to disagree.  I feel like;  If they are in my country illegally then they have no rights. 

Of course, I don't discriminate.  If someone comes into my home illegally they have no rights there either.  More likely than not the headline that would be in the morning paper would be "Justifiable Homicide in Small Local Community has Neighbors Cheering"

KC

[Chris_]

Working illegally in this country was their choice, and their risk to take.  If they don't get paid, tough sh*t.  They should not have been here in the first place.

Let 'em sue.  Anyone winning such a suit should be subject to immediate deportation and loss of all income from sais lawsuit in the form of an "alien tax"  (all said funds to be used to build/improve the border fence).  Then place a penalty on the employer at a rate of 110% on any profit made from illegal labor.

[Texacon]

Working illegally in this country was their choice, and their risk to take.  If they don't get paid, tough sh*t.  They should not have been here in the first place.

Let 'em sue.  Anyone winning such a suit should be subject to immediate deportation and loss of all income from sais lawsuit in the form of an "alien tax"  (all said funds to be used to build/improve the border fence).  Then place a penalty on the employer at a rate of 110% on any profit made from illegal labor.

I agree.  To me this is akin to the burglar who sues the business when they get stuck in the vent-a-hood trying to break in to 'make their living'.

KC

[NHSparky]

Regardless the employer needs to face a severe penalty.

And neither party will ever do that, for their own reasons.

[NHSparky]

Agree.

Not when you consider what we think is "hosed" is still damn good money to them.

[Texacon]

This makes me wonder.  Should the illegals sue their employer and be successful at it ..... will TAXES be taken from ALL the earnings?  Retroactively?  Seems only fair.

KC

[NHSparky]

I look at it this way--if they can do it to illegals, then what's to stop them from doing it to LEGAL immigrants or even citizens?

Now, if they are in fact illegal, fine--pay them, then tax their asses and make them pay for their own plane ticket back to nation of origin.

[Chris_]

I look at it this way--if they can do it to illegals, then what's to stop them from doing it to LEGAL immigrants or even citizens?
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There's that little matter of legal status in this country.
They break the law by entering this country.
They break the law by working in this country without authorization.
Now they complain for being screwed when they broke the law???  WTH?