Saw this for the first time as a teenager working in the service industry too. My restaurant was a little mom-and-pop run by a couple who would knowingly violat

Saw this for the first time as a teenager working in the service industry too. My restaurant was a little mom-and-pop run by a couple who would knowingly violate employment law by hiring undocumented workers for back-of-house roles, and would use the threat of contacting immigration enforcement to coerce them to do further unlawful things when it suited their interest. Often it was in service of unlawful activities like improper waste disposal and dumping. I have no idea how much they were paid, if it was regularly, or if they benefitted from mandated labor concessions like lunches and breaks. So odd that we so often label people on one side of this transaction as “illegal” but have no popular words to describe the other.