Last night someone invited us for dinner here in Kaohsiung and introduced us to three women from the mainland and the guy who had helped them come over. Taiwan has all kinds of restrictions against mainland immigration and on mainlanders working, but they still come illegally. The guy who hired them explained to my mother-in-law that they weren't good looking enough to be prostitutes, so they worked (illegally) in other jobs. One of them volunteered that her marriage to a Taiwanese man was fake; I was surprised that she'd admit this to strangers. The other two women were also married, but they didn't say it was fake. Anyway, they said they could make more money here in a couple of years than they could in a lifetime in China.