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Day: June 27, 2018
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
Some people do actually visit for work purposes.
They get sent somewhere by their employer to… conduct or receive training, fill in a labor shortage, evaluate processes and policy adherence, inspect facilities, provide in-person expertise, collaborate on a project…
Many possible things. I know a guy from Austria who keeps coming back to my town for work-related reasons, but who lives and primarily works in Austria. He’s an engineer for a company that has a US branch located in my area, and has been sent out repeatedly to help with their machinery. My boyfriend’s been sent by his job to both London and Ukraine, and people who work for the same company have been sent here from both places.
So even if someone mentions their work when you haven’t asked, it’s entirely possible to assume they’ve been sent on a temporary basis because of such a situation (you’ve seen them repeatedly for months? It must be an intractable problem, having been held up, or perhaps they keep having to return). How wonderful that their employer values them so much as to send them to another country to help business operations there! They’re wearing grungy clothes? Perhaps it’s just because you only see them when they’re off work and wearing what they find more comfortable. Maybe they only packed a few sets of nice work clothes and don’t want to dirty them unnecessarily by wearing them while out touristing in their down time. Maybe they’ve been engaging in some sort of hobby like dirtbiking, playing rugby, or volunteering at a community garden because they like plants and meeting people while doing helpful things, and of course they’re going to wear grungy old stained clothes for that kind of thing rather than their office attire!
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