Reply #27: The ones I know of all work in the restaurant I left. [View All]

The lowest paid is 9.50 and the highest is 14.50 so maybe its different in your area but Maryland restaurants pay the wage I speak of. But yeah should have clarified income tax, it sucks when I made allot more money than they did before taxes but after taxes they are about at my level. I really like it when they laugh at me because of how much I have to work as a salaried employee and the pay I get after taxes compared to theirs. They also jokingly thank me for the new soccer complex that my taxes pay for in their neighberhood.One guy is on his third house in two years, he knows allot of people that come in illegally, some say he is part of one of those gangs but he doesn't seem like a bad person, he provides them a place to live and they pay the mortgages for him. He was working two jobs but after he filled his first house he was making more from his tenants than his mortgage and quit his morning job and stayed where I worked. He then bought a second house, did the same thing and now a third. He has 3 houses worth almost 1.5 million and works one job making 13.50 an hour.

If it weren't so illegal, I would love to do that and own a home but its too risky, I'll stay in my apartment. He said if he gets caught he will go home and just come back with new papers and I.D.

It's insane knowing how some of it works, most of them paid around $5000 to get here and around $75 for I.D and $75 for social security cards. I tried explaining to them how if they have a S.S # that belongs to someone in their state, it could screw the person in certain cases but they really didn't get what I was saying.

Sorry for the general term of "they" I meant the ones Ive met in my 13 years working in restaurants, not any illegal immigrants I haven't met and don't know. The people I speak of have been great people to meet, taught me allot about their situation and where their culture but I still disagree with them not paying taxes.

Its a crazy messed up world!