I'm really torn about this. My Uncle Wayne is using illegals to build his new deck and for some extensive landscaping. He says he's saving money on labor, but I don't like it because my cousin Rick is in landscaping and could use the money to buy a car. My uncle didn't want to pay my cousin. Now I know why. So, should I turn in my uncle for using illegals? Or, should I mind my own business?
2006-07-26 17:42:18 · 22 answers · asked by burnedoutcollegegrad 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
no, just find some body legal that is willing to do the work for him, young people just out of school, need work at entry level, try that.
2006-07-26 17:54:24 · answer #1 · answered by Fred B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think about it in these terms. Someone else's uncle is doing the same thing in another part of the same city. That person is not ratting on his uncle.
Your uncle gets busted - sort of - and you get into all kinds of drama with your family over it. The other guy's uncle goes on his way.
How is that going to help your cousin Rick?
Families are weird about money, and that's the way it is.
You would be better off helping Rick advertise his business and getting more work. Sure there are illegals doing all kinds of work. They really need it, and it does make it tough for competitors. But its a federal problem that needs a big solution, not your pot shots.
About families and their wierd money trips, check out some of the literature on the psychology of money, or consciousness of money. You can evolve into bringing everyone in your life to a higher consciousness if you lead by example. Its really the solution.
2006-07-26 18:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Andy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say turn him in, but lets face it, the cops are most likely not going to do anything. Depending on where you live, some jurisdictions have been advised by their state and their local INS office to leave well enough alone and they won't deport them.
I don't agree with it, the refusal to deport illegal immigrants, but there is nothing we can do except stay on our government to address the issue. And in reply to one of the respondent's answers that we should leave the illegals alone, they are trying to earn a buck, so am I. Some illegals make more than I do and have more opportunity, even thouh I am from a nice middle class family. I have to pay for school, taxes, pay my bills. Some illegals don't have to pay for school (they get grants, but oh guess what my parents make to much...too bad for me), they are illegal, really don't have to worry about taxes, and well bills? Let's face it....not much going on in that department either. Its a sad day when they seem to have more rights than our average, everday, LEGAL citizens.
2006-07-26 17:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally you are not just getting Wayne in trouble you are messing up the life's of all illegals, maybe they have a huge family that is starving or a sick wife or something they have to have a bad life to risk everything be being illegals...
2006-07-26 17:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by johnprahl 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
think about the lives u r about to destroy.so what if ur unclehas hired illegal immagrants. get ur self something else to do r u worried that they might do a better job than uncle rick .rick probaly has tons of cars laying around .r u to gain from him getting a new car. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
2006-07-26 17:52:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-07-26 18:54:16 · answer #6 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell yeah turn him in. We need to get the illegals out of the country and punish those who keep them here.
2006-07-26 17:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by corianne2003 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no thats ****** up. Illegal Immigrants are here ILLEGALLY, they know that they are going to get paid **** for hard work, In the Phillipines a man can re do your whole house for like 3 bucks a day.
2006-07-26 17:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Nicole M. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mind your own business, not because I agree with your Uncle, but because nobody likes a tattletale. He'll get his in the end.
2006-07-26 17:46:15 · answer #9 · answered by Candi H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
turn him in, but good luck getting the justice department to do anything, any time soon,, Bush wants illegal immigrants here in the US,, and he condones those like your Uncle
2006-07-26 17:46:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋