Reply #27: I apologize for using the term "illegals". It is a short cut and lazy [View All]

Rather than write out, "Swedish man here on an tourist visa who was working illegally and who paid a woman to marry him two days before INS was getting ready to deport his ass."

Or "Canadian who simply ignored every law applying to him, never got a visa, never did anything to stay in the country legally, never got the applicable licenses for his business, never paid one cent of taxes, but managed to slide through the legal system until he had victimized over thirty local people and businesses to the tune of over a quarter of a million dollars. Not to mention ripping off several government entities, including the police department."

(In fact the last is what gives me a laugh - he was supposedly an air conditioning contractor and hired to replace the A/C for the PD. They spent $40,000 and a summer without A/C before they realized their missing contractor had been finally convicted for multiple felony bad checks and thrown into prison. At the time they awarded him the contract, he had already been convicted, placed on probation and had a warrant issued for his arrest for failure to show for court and for additional felony bad checks.)