As an aside, I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won’t you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.

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    So the manager/owner also got arrested or fined for employing illegal immigrants right?

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      Ha! Ha ha! As an extra aside, I got fired from that job for “talking back” to that boss.

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        Some people take respect to mean treating other people as equals. Other people treat respect as an excuse to exploit people, like they should be treated as superiors.

        I believe the quote went something like, “If you don’t treat me with respect, then you don’t deserve respect,” meaning, “If you don’t treat me as an authority, I won’t treat you as human.”

        As always, the more a person wants power, the less that person deserves it.