[ilbegone]

Here is a government employed enabler who is identified and needs to be charged and penalized by due process for aiding and abetting:

A crew of federal officials wandering into a day labor hiring zone used to mean one thing: time to leave.

Not the case Thursday morning on Monument Boulevard. Armed with coffee, not handcuffs, investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor chatted warmly with Latino immigrant workers about how to find jobs without being exploited.

"We're the feds, but the good ones," said Paul Ramirez, speaking in Spanish inside the Michael Chavez Center, a gathering spot for day laborers. "We're here to help workers."

The unprecedented visit was part of a campaign to bring long-established workplace protections to the nation's most vulnerable and underpaid workers, including those who have no legal right to be living in the United States.

"Documented or not, the law is: If you work certain hours, you are owed certain money," Ramirez told the small crowd. Met at first with apprehension, the Brentwood native captivated his audience of men from Mexico and Central America as he told of tending tomatoes, onions, asparagus and cucumbers as a young California field hand. Now an enforcer of workplace rules, he advised what to do when contractors skirt the law.

American workers will be a lot less exploited when government employees like Ramirez uphold ALL OF OUR LAWS, WHICH INCLUDE IMMIGRATION LAW. WITHIN THOSE LAWS ARE PROVISIONS WITH TEETH TO DEAL WITH EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS AS WELL AS TO DEPORT THE ILLEGALLY PRESENT.

As well, there are plenty of AMERICAN workers who are woefully ignorant of their employee rights. WHY ISN'T RAMIREZ TALKING TO THEM INSTEAD?