ICE incompetently raids DC restaurants

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Anonymous wrote:These guys are so stupid. They think that restaurants keep copies of I-9 forms in the kitchen?

I read earlier that there were agents stationed at the exits in case anyone tried to leave when they started asking for paperwork. The paperwork is just a way to try to flush people out.

Did they have judicial warrants? If not, the restaurants do not need to let them in to ask workers for their identification. The restaurants are private property.

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Anonymous wrote:And now they’re at playgrounds, schools too: “ICE is at Forest Hills playground seizing nannies in front of the kids. I guess they’re also raiding Mundo Verde today. Please let people know to ask their nannies to stay home if this impacts them.”

Who would hire undocumented nannies?

A LOT of wealthy people do, actually. Same with undocumented house staff. They can underpay them and they don't have to pay taxes on them or insure them.

They should go ahead and charge whoever is employing these people, then. They are part of the problem. And are also taking advantage of folks.

Not exactly. It's can be a pipeline to help people from their own country. Back in the day, my aunt and uncle, one of whom was a diplomat from a Latin American country, hired an undocumented live-in nanny and housekeeper from that country. She was desperate to send money back to her home country, she was well treated (I visited and saw how she lived and was addressed by my relatives), and it was a good life... except that the pay was so good, comparatively, that she decided to stay for more than 10 years. She couldn't travel back and forth, obviously, and didn't see her own children in person for all that time! All the while, looking after my young cousins.

I thought it was such a terrible thing, but my aunt said: "Look, her kids have healthy food, clothes that fit, school supplies and they can live in a safer part of town and pay the doctor when they're sick - this is why she's doing this." This was a long time ago, but I still remember how eye-opening that was, as a young woman coming from a very sheltered middle class bubble.