Thanks for the thread DonViejo

Don't recall the old man every dissin cheetoz like this..
Or for that matter dementia boy dissin him back for anything..
We will see the reaction...

Sanders disses Trump all the time.

It was illegal.

We were also protected by the law from being prosecuted.

I was the I-9 officer for the small business. The undocumented would bring me their documents. I wasn't an expert and distinguishing fake Virginia driver's licenses, green cards, non-driver's license ID cards from New Mexico from the real things. I'd dutifully make a copy of the obviously fake ID--and file them away as protection against the immigration service.

Now, I was fully able to check to see if these were fake IDs. But if I checked for those Latinos whose English sucked and who had the obviously fake ID I'd be subject to anti-discrimination penalties unless I did the same kind of check to the same extent for those who, if they were illegally in the country, were from anglophone Canada. I wasn't going to do that. If the forgeries were good, it would be very difficult to tell and there'd be a good chance I'd base my judgment not on the documentation but on my knowledge of reality. In other words, I'd be guilty of yet another kind of employment discrimination. I had the I-9 regulation on one side, case law fencing me in on another side, and EEOC requirements on the third side. But where I sat? Warm and cozy. With free drinks.

I was in a real pickle when the 18-year-old woman who we called Maria but who said she was from the DF and whose ID said she was Gertrude told me to stop using that ID and that SSN and to start using one that had some other name on it. Still not Maria.

But my firmly (D) boss who insisted that her divorced husband obey every jot and tittle of the law and her divorce settlement looked at the illegal immigrant matter and said, "Fuck the law, I don't need any law." And with that, a little gap opened up so that my employer was now subject to legal action. But I, again, was covered.

Even there my boss didn't do the hiring and never once interviewed Maria, even though they sometimes spoke through an interpreter; she farmed the actual hiring out to her sales manager and the VP. Her daughter did the hiring for another company she owned, and if her daughter hired somebody the company owner never saw the paperwork. Officially Hannah was, in some sense, the employer; but she lived 400 miles from the other place of business and hadn't visited there in years. She signed the tax forms. Accusing her of hiring improperly at the second site would be foolishness; even had she said "make sure they're legal immigrants" my counterpart there would have had the same choices: Do a lot of grunt work to verify the documentation for every employee or just photocopy the records and put them in a file as protection against the INS.