U.S. Govt. Hires 60,000 Illegal Immigrants, Pays Them $1 Per Day

(Michael Allen) The U.S. government does not allow U.S. companies to hire illegal immigrants in America, but relies on 60,000 undocumented immigrants to provide labor at federal detention centers where they are held after being caught by the Border Patrol.

The federal government pays the immigrants 13 cents an hour, or about $1 a day (a rate that was set back in 1950), reports The New York Times. Some immigrants are not even paid money, but are reimbursed with candy bars or soda.

If normal American businesses do this, they can be prosecuted and go to jail. Reginald Wayne Miller was recently arrested after allegedly paying foreign students $50 a week for 40 hours of work, which is more than the U.S. government pays.

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