Hello Steve,

The information from their lawyer Todd Pomereau is "incomplete."

That story you linked quotes Pomereau as having said "several have work authorizations." So let's say that means at most 4 or 5 might have legal work authorizations (although we actually don't know that since no details are provided).

Didn't the manager of the car wash claim they all had work authorizations or green cards in their "lockers"?

And of course they all have immigration cases NOW. Because Pommereau has filed habeas corpus petitions for them.

Still-why no I-9s? Why didn't Todd get a court order to access their work lockers? Todd is a well known attorney in Massachusetts, very skilled at immigration, he could have gotten a court order quickly.

No doubt the attorney will burn up every penny in legal fees that he can get from his clients and their families, making it a cause celebre so possibly get additional funding from NGOs and go fund mes.

He will use up every penny, then they will be deported.

Clearly, if as wzambon kept explaining to me, their green cards and work authorizations were in their work lockers, wouldn't the cheapest and quickest way to resolve things be....for their attorney to get the documents from their employer, and provide those proofs to the government???

It's a car wash. They were all working off the books, possibly. NO I-9s, no green cards, no work authorizations, there is nothing at all in their lockers. Possibly expired green cards and work authorizations, or docs that are defective for other reasons (such as fraud or misrepresentation when they applied for them).

Even Todd admitted, best case scenario, "several" of them supposedly have proper documents. That means "several" don't.