... to get kitchen wages up.

AS IF.

it should be the business owner's for not doing their legal duty of checking required documents. I don't hear this brought up often.

It seems to be an issue of skin tone and language. Goes beyond bad employers not checking status. But I am all for hauling in illegal EMPLOYERS too.

we've had arrested while driving black for decades. Now we have grabbed for driving brown. It's not about any papers being checked, etc. (although we are suppose to be free in our persons to not have to carry papers!), it's about being kidnapped through nothing more than your skin color or your gender. I read where some women are having trouble driving into Canada from the U.S. I keep saying, as much as trump loves walls... walls don't really keep people out, but they sure can keep them IN, where they can either be controlled or killed. Someday someone is going to tell dufus what consequences his policies have had on "brain drain" here in the U.S. and that's it already at a point of no return.

They arrested a judge for interfering with ICE. Shouldn't these Trump supporting restaurant owners be subjected to the same treatment.
Personally, I agree with the owners trying to help their people not get arrested, but I'm always for Trump supporters getting maximum consequences. That's just me.

He just doesn't want to be filmed having them dragged out in shackles from HIS restaurant.

Would be a bad look for him.

This "restaurateur" is a hard-core Trump supporter. Yet he hires illegals to work in his bars. Now he's surprised that his workers are being targeted?

So what does he do? He tries to hide his illegals from Trump's ICE thugs. Now that he's in the news, they'll be keeping an eye on his establishments.

Does anyone else see the hypocrisy? Clearly this guy has no self-awareness or ethics.

no way he can re-open now without hiring new staff.

And how it works is they often have "documents" but the owners know those are not legit and maybe some of the "payroll" is cash. Not excusing it, especially w voting GOP.

The people they hire all have the required documents - a state issued picture ID (usually a driver's license) and a Social Security card. If there are citizens, they have to provide a work permit (AKA green card).

The employer makes copies of these documents and has the employee fill out a W4 and an I-9. All these documents go in their employee folder.

There NO REQUIREMENT that employers check the validity of any of these documents. The is an online system called E-Verify, but employers ARE NOT REQUIRED to use it. Every time someone in Congress suggests verification should be mandatory, it's shot down by the GOP as being an "unnecessary burden" to businesses.

I guess I’m not surprised the Republicans don’t push that issue; it would target too many of their own.

And then the form is saved in a secure location.

Good God.

Yeesh. We're never going to learn, are we?

although "restaurateur" is more common and preferred over "restauranteur".

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/restauranteur_n?tl=true

Fuck him, fuck Kid Rock, and fuck tRump.

who was indicted for doing this very same thing.

Based on that, Kash Patel needs to send his masked goon squad to arrest this Trump-sucking asshole. Then, he must release a photo of the perp walk.

while tossing red meat to their racist supporters.

"They're stealing our jobs"

"Nobody wants to work anymore"

How come MAGA voters aren't applying for these jobs?

Are the MAGA lining up for the dishwasher jobs at those places?

after they're done eating some faces.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds in Trumplandia

MAGAt employers *never ever* pay for hours not worked ...

So to me, this is a very two-faced action ...

Protect the workers, but only so that they will come back to work, NOT for true concerns about their freedom.

I fully expect such toad-turd hypocrites to stand by laughing, mocking the workers to their faces as they get "disappeared," then running to SendDoughSuckers bawling his lungs out.

Isn't that the definition of republican?

to open a joint venture Casino and Restaurant in Nashville.

Problem solved with a little payola

Trump will absolutely call these restaurants off limits to ICE if Smith makes the proper purchase or donation. Watch it happen. It will.

But, why isn't the cult idiot being arrested and prosecuted for hiring undocumented workers? Hell, he's admitting as much.

Probably a shitload of undocumented employees in his places.

Someone should ask Bondi about it.

#FAFO

that he has so much hatred for the people he works with every day, and on whose backs he makes his living.

Isn't that a shame.

He should be proud to see the fruits of his labor, the Trump Presidency, in action.
The loss of his businesses is surely a small price to pay for cleansing the nation of all these illegals.

If he is hiring illegals who don't have a social security card, he is violating the law.

I hope he loses everything he has..

But in the meantime....

I hope you die alone, bankrupt, and deeply in debt.

I guess this guy just got a big pill to swallow. But oh those side effects!

Now, if you'll pardon me, I'm going to go and take a long, soothing bath in your frustration and financial losses.

Did they really tjink that stupid gold flag wou,d protect them like lamb's blood on the door posts protected the Hebrews from the last plague?

My best guess says these assholes won't learn a thing, either.

They know, intimately, that their staff is majority undocumented. They know these people and know they are good people and hard workers.

The level of assholery and lack of self-awareness you have to have to profit handsomely from their work (which is also underpaid) while still supporting Trump/Miller immigration rhetoric and policy is truly pathological.

Watch what happens in the hotels when suddenly, the housekeeping staff disappears.

Good point.

Produce rotting in fields right now

to figure out the outcome since shithole musk republicans told the American people what they were going to do.

LOL

So it won't just be people without legal papers who leave. I guess all those in favor of this atrocity happening to illegal immigrants didn't think about that.

they're really after demographic genocide by any means in order to create and maintain a whites-only culture. They don't want POC anywhere in the U.S. -- legal or not, and regardless of how many generations of their families have lived here.

Frankly, I think the Native Americans should raised holy hell and tell all the whites to get out of their country -- that we're all illegal immigrants!

These "business people" can't run a business without labor that they exploit and underpay. Same is happening at MAL and all the tRUMP properties but ICE will never touch the Mushroom DICKtator.

It's NOT the workers responsibility to make a person's biz successful or profitable. If business people can't run their businesses and pay a fair living wage then they should go out of business because their "dream" is not the responsibility of the workers to make happen.

Republicans claim the immigrants are taking Americans' jobs.

Good news for republicans - you get your jobs back.

??? Of course not! How could you think such a thing?
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I realize many of his employees are likely legally documented immigrants who are fearful of ICe deporting them anyway.

But I'll bet this trump jumper is lax with checking and maintaining documentation on all his employees.

Every trump humping employer should be hit with maximum possible fines for illegal hiring. Plus we should add a hypocrisy penalty, but that would be illegal. Karma of bankruptcy would be good enough

workers, but a lot of them probably 'know a guy' who can provide the papers needed to pretend workers are documented.

Guess he thought the mighty arm of his political party would sweep down and protect him. Ouch!

Also known as US citizens or immigrants with green cards..

I know they cost more, but it seems the restaurateur is turning some serious dime on his locations and could afford to pay a living wage in the kitchen.
This is not "a job Americans won't do" for a decent wage. He's using these people, not employing them.

I don't want these immigrants rounded up and deported, but it's about time millionaires pay the damn help.

If "ice" would simply arrest the owners, farmers, managers, and others who hire these "illegals" the problem would quickly be solved.

The judge was arrested for having the immigrant, leave her courtroom and I will think that the same thing happened here they had the immigrants go home before the ice activity kind of encroached on them

...ICE would probably arrest them for helping undocumented people evade arrest, just like they did with the Wisconsin judge.

The selective enforcement and hypocrisy is staggering. And the media ignores it.