Maybe I should not post this but it has bothered me, especially since I have removed, retired from the work force for over twelve years. This may be long, but stay with me, please. Had lunch with old company friend who is back here on vacation yesterday. The company I worked for in mgmt for 28 years has many operations in the upper midwest, plus foreign plants as well. Good friend of mine is still with them at the second largest plant up north. He is a supervisor over production lines as most are. The company hires illegals left and right. He has one couple, not married who both work for him who each have four children each from prior marriages or whatever. The two are taking home together $1500 a week. They and most illegals working for the company live in a small town thirty miles away and live there under different names in order to get free lunches for the kids and food stamps. Per my friend this is the norm up there. Another thing is when someone is hired and then fired, they have had illegals come back with a different SS number, well in some cases the SS has been a felon from a different state and the company calls the sheriff and the LE come out and the guy says that isn't me but they still hire him back. Seriously, my old friend doesn't make things up. I am just happy that my old friend can get out of there within the year and return to OK. As I say this is from my friend and he does not make things up and I am not surprised since he has seen it first hand. OH, one last thing, the illegals are asked repeatedly to go for the direct deposit for the paychecks, but they won't do it because they want to take to checks to the bank and then send cash via Western Union or whatever back to Mexico or where ever.