What did you learn today?

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Acebot44

Learned about this thing called Payday Assault. Its something that happens to illegal immigrants because they cannot apply for bank account, and are thus paid via cash or check for their work. If they get paid in check, they must cash it at some lowkey withdrawal service in their neighborhood and once they leave with cash in hand, get beaten up and robbed for their earnings. Being illegal immigrants, they have a fear of being deported for any reason so avoid filing charges with the police and thus the criminals go unpunished.

We use to have something similar happen with teenagers in NYC during the summer. We have SYEP which is an employement group for youngsters, and everyone knew the pay schedule. So other kids would stand outside of cash checking places and waited for them to come outside and beat them up for their money.

They have since changed the system to giving the kids, an ATM/debit card in which their money is deposited.