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lieability

Unsure what question you are refering to.

Thanks for letting me know it was [dead].

Killing a comment that links to dot gov sources about undocumnteds' being protected, rather than prosecuted, by labor law and showing immigrants pay taxes is fascinating indeed.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2025/2025-53.html

"The Labor Commissioner is reminding all workers that California’s labor laws protect every worker in the state, regardless of immigration status."

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG...

"A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund."

> this isn’t really how HN operates.

ThIs Is HN!1!! WHerE We IgnOrE SubsTantaTivE lInKs, FaIl to sUpPorT oUr HaTeFUl rHeToRic, clAim SupeRioRIty WiTHoUT EvIDENce, aNd ThINk aS A HoMOGeNous hIvEMiND.

Describing something so incredibly poorly, that it can be used to describe computing as a whole, only to avoid needing to take a moral stance is strange.
> no different

In your world view immigrants working jobs you find beneath you is the same as someone selling drugs?

> likely committing criminal activity

You understand that exploiting day laborers to circumvent labor laws puts the, mostly civil though vanishingly rare criminal, liability on the employer rather than the employee, right?

We use laws rather than your own personal hatred of immigrants to define criminality.