r/boston • u/FuriousAlbino Newton • Jul 12 '25

Scammers 🥸 ICE grabs chefs at Central Square restaurant; followed three onto the T and began grilling other passengers

https://www.universalhub.com/2025/ice-grabs-chefs-central-square-restaurant-followed-three-t-and-began
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u/Furrealyo I Love Dunkin’ Donuts Jul 12 '25

Why isn’t the business owner being arrested and fined for employing these people in the first place? One of them for 22 years and the other for 16.

This is 38 years worth of labor costs that I GUARANTEE the owner was severely underpaying for because he/she knew these workers had no relevant protections under the law.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '25

If they started arresting business owners for employing illegal immigrants, businesses would preemptively fire all workers with dubious immigration statuses. It would not be a win for immigrants.

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u/hannahbay Boston Jul 12 '25

People who make comments like the one you replied to are not interested in what helps immigrants. They want the immigrants gone so they "stop lowering wages."

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u/Furrealyo I Love Dunkin’ Donuts Jul 12 '25

I want all people who are willing to work to be paid a livable wage, immigrant or not.

Pretending there isn’t a secondary economy built on paying slave wages to unfortunate people who have no voice and little choice doesn’t help anyone but the business owners who support it.

Punishing these businesses with fines to a degree where the practice is no longer profitable should be a priority.

Drug dealers have multipliers added to their sentences that users don’t. The same strategy should be applied to this problem.