Mutha is all down for getting your hustle on. If you can make it across the border and take a job that no one else seems to want then so be it. But do so knowing that you are breaking the law and if you get caught, take your punishment like a man or woman.
Here in DC, some former Chipotle employees are up in arms because they were taken into a break room during lunch and replaced, allegedly for immigration violations, i.e., not being in the country legally. Predictably, tree-hugging hippies are mounting an online protest demanding that Chipotle "apologize, change its mass firing practices, and pay employees what they are owed. In short: demand Chipotle treat workers with integrity!" (their angry intensity, not mine)
Slow down!
Now, let's be real. The fucked up part of what Chipotle did was not give the workers a chance to prove their innocence in the form of papers proving they were here legally. That's a matter for the courts to determine. Let's assume that all the workers WERE here legally. In that case, they should have had no problem proving such. Even if they were in the middle of some sort of "process" of legalization, papers showing they are in the middle of such a "process" should be sufficient enough to delay action.
If they weren't, then Chipotle had every right to do what they did, which, in the words of the online protesters, was tossed them "out in the cold. They received no warning and no respect. They huddled together to comfort each other, thinking of how they would feed their families and pay the rent." In other words, they were summarily fired for submitting false immigration status on their employment applications and they got what they deserved. They were here illegally and they got caught.
Side note, other than getting Betty White to appear on SNL, when have these online petitions ever worked?
PS, RIP Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky!
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