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Buddy of mine Sr Principal Engineer had his Indian Boss and H4 spouse walked out this morning by feds 6:30 am stand-up meeting. He suspected something was up and had been discussing it with me because he said they kept flying back to India and were acting strange. They do secure defense work but the boss supposedly wasn't 'visible' to that work. Yes, that's a thing in some businesses even defense contractors. Hollywood FL. Area. Maybe there's a story coming? I am going to watch the DOJ news feeds. Right in front of everyone - no identification on the folks walking them out. Into black SUV. Very very public display. He called me immediately and said- looking for a job? I said - I am posting this - he said - you should, don't name my company because we don't want to lose work and obviously we were complying. I agreed.

**Illegal Monday.** Call to action E-verify them... They Don’t Work For You. If you are the one ultimately paying for the work and the people doing it are unauthorized, you can still be held accountable. HOAs are a clear example, but it does not stop there. Most boards hire landscaping and maintenance companies without ever requiring E-Verify in the contract. Under federal law it is illegal to knowingly use a contract to obtain unauthorized labor. In Florida, if the contractor is unlicensed or uninsured and uses unauthorized workers, the HOA can be reclassified as the statutory employer. That opens the door to civil penalties, workers’ compensation liability, and personal exposure for board members and property owners when someone gets hurt. The same pattern shows up in property management, construction, and any place money flows through middlemen who prefer not to check status. The fix is simple and almost never used. Put an E-Verify mandate in every vendor agreement. Require proof of licensing and insurance. Add a strong indemnification clause so the contractor, not the homeowners or the organization, carries the risk. Remind folks that there is a risk and adding this simple clause protects them. It's a way to look helpful while ensuring Americans are hired. 8 U.S.C. § 1324a makes it illegal to use a contract to knowingly subcontract for unauthorized labor. Looking the other way to save money does not protect you. Most organizations skip these steps because it is easier and sometimes cheaper in the short term. That choice carries real risk. If your HOA, property management company, or any service provider you pay has no E-Verify requirement, demand it. Put it in writing. Make the contractor prove compliance. They don’t work for you. Protect yourself. Bookmark this. Share or quote it. Comment with what you have seen in your own contracts. Follow for more Illegal Monday.

We Were Deceived by the GOP and Byron Donalds. Now They Want Us to Move Along. Look, I am a conservative. I am NOT advocating that anyone vote for a socialist. But I am also not going to pretend evidence does not exist because acknowledging it is politically inconvenient. Byron Donalds refused to debate his Republican primary opponents, arguing there was no reason to debate candidates polling in the single digits. Now we are supposed to simply forget about it and move on? Now we see he had opponents in the double digits and I can only see three possibilities: 1-He was gaslighting us. 2-He was lying to us. 3-Or he was ignorant of what was actually happening in his own race. I am struggling to figure out which of those explanations belongs in the column marked: "Deserves my vote." Being conservative does not mean turning off your critical thinking when the candidate has an R after his name. A politician that willingly lies to us once is likely to do it again. This dude did it before the general election. Zero respect for us. Trust is earned. And when the facts change, I expect answers, not instructions to move along.