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...Miller: Most jobs require at least minimum wage, including the jobs Mercato would have been performing around the house for Chavez...
...What was the legal basis behind Chavez's departure? On the lookout for answers, TIME.com conferred with Mark Miller, political science professor at University of Delaware; Cynthia Estlund, professor of law at Columbia University; and David Swider, a partner at Bose McKinney & Evans, an Indianapolis law firm specializing in labor and employment...
...Mark Miller: Current labor law says if you compensate someone more than $1,000, there is an employment relationship, and you are required to fill out the requisite tax forms. It's unclear exactly how much Chavez gave Mercato - so we don't know if the limit was crossed...
...Miller: Harboring an alien has been against the law since 1952. In 1952, both houses of Congress adopted bills calling for sanctions against employers who illegally hired aliens. In conference committee, LBJ (then a U.S. senator from Texas) rewrote the law with what's called the "Texas proviso." The new language held that "no employer could be held responsible for employment of an unauthorized alien." Harboring (or giving shelter to an illegal alien) remained illegal, although there's been little if any enforcement. Then, in 1986, immigration laws corrected the Texas proviso and made it illegal for employers...
...performance derives from this mixture of motives. You never quite know where Harden, 41, is coming from, but you do get the sense that the first person she's surprising is herself. Maybe the last to be surprised are her fellow performers, who have been appreciating her onscreen ("Miller's Crossing") and onstage ("Angels in America") for a decade. Now, following her humorous turn in Clint Eastwood's "Space Cowboys" with this display of devastated loyalty, we can all join in celebrating a wonderful actress...