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More workers say their bosses are threatening to have them deported
Los Angeles Times ^ | 1/2/2018 | Andrew Khouri

Posted on 01/02/2018 9:58:20 AM PST by jeannineinsd

The deal the worker struck was simple: $150 a day to tile a bathroom and stucco the walls of a home in Arcadia. The pay was to come at the end of each day but never did, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court by the California labor commissioner.

After six days with no pay, the lawsuit alleges, the worker finally confronted his boss, who then snapped, called him a “wetback” and threatened to report him to immigration authorities.

“Let me share something with you, not only am I [an ex]-sheriff, my family are all in the police department,” the lawsuit says the boss wrote in a follow-up text message after refusing to pay the worker. “You want to come to my job & create a issue, I will handcuff you take you into custody & wait for I.C.E to come take you in for felony threats.”

The employer could not be reached for comment, but the claim is increasingly common. Complaints over immigration-related retaliation threats surged last year in California, according to the Labor Commissioner’s Office. Through Dec. 22, workers had filed 94 immigration-related retaliation claims with the office, up from 20 in all of 2016 and only seven a year earlier.

The cases include instances in which employers allegedly threatened to report workers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, after they raised issues over working conditions, including wage theft. Other allegations include employers demanding different documents than those required by federal immigration law or refusing to honor documents that appear genuine.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; california; deportation; ice; immigration
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To: circlecity

What was the quality of the workmanship? Some Mexicans are pretty good tilers.


21 posted on 01/02/2018 10:11:24 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: circlecity

I read the article again, you may be right.


22 posted on 01/02/2018 10:13:13 AM PST by jeannineinsd
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To: jeannineinsd

Judge: “show me the contract”

Judge: “ no contract, then show me the photos of your work”

Judge “ no photos, no crantact, what evidence do you have fo actually doing the work claimed”

Judge “ no evidence, no lawsuit. Judgement for the defendant”


23 posted on 01/02/2018 10:14:11 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: jeannineinsd

Well, the homeowner’s plan was a good way to get work done cheaply (or free) but it depended on the worker not actually calling his bluff. He is now in big trouble.

And this simple verse from James comes to mind:

James 5:4
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.


24 posted on 01/02/2018 10:14:37 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: jeannineinsd

Everything has become complicateder and complicteder!

What became of KISS???

Why can’t we all just grok simplicity and continuity?

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25 posted on 01/02/2018 10:14:44 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: jeannineinsd
James 5:4,
"Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts."

26 posted on 01/02/2018 10:15:42 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: jeannineinsd
EXCELLENT !
27 posted on 01/02/2018 10:16:25 AM PST by tomkat
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To: jeannineinsd

Do these bosses know they can be fined for knowingly hiring illegal aliens?....................


28 posted on 01/02/2018 10:16:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: jeannineinsd

Deport them both?


29 posted on 01/02/2018 10:17:59 AM PST by Ingtar
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To: COBOL2Java
I read the article. All we have is the handyman’s side of the story. What if he did a crappy job and was given six days to fix it? What if after six days he never did, and the homeowner refused to pay for a crappy job?

In the prior administration the handyman probably thought he had protection from Obama’a Justice Department. Ditto in California. Times are changing - at least in Washington.

You are correct that there is likely another side to the story, and the LA Times does not inform us of the other side.

30 posted on 01/02/2018 10:18:45 AM PST by jeannineinsd
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To: jeannineinsd

How about the illegal get the hell out of my country. As soon as he gets to court ICE should arrest and deport his ass.


31 posted on 01/02/2018 10:19:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cicero
Deport them all: workers and homeowners. Let Mexico sort it out.

Deport the homeowners? Hip flippant and stupid a comment is that?

32 posted on 01/02/2018 10:20:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jeannineinsd

If more of these illegals got stiffed the fewer would come. I applaud not paying his sorry ass. Work here at your own risk. Gringo may stiff you.


33 posted on 01/02/2018 10:22:09 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jeannineinsd

If the Employer knows they have illegal aliens, after the deportation the employer should go to prison!!


34 posted on 01/02/2018 10:22:30 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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To: ifinnegan
I wouldn't necessarily believe it, but it looks like there's a good possibility that the evidence includes text messages sent by the boss to the worker.

That would really be something else. The boss should spend ten years in jail just for being that stupid.

35 posted on 01/02/2018 10:22:38 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: jeannineinsd

You should not hire illegals.

Nor should you stiff someone who puts in a full day’s work.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.


36 posted on 01/02/2018 10:23:12 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bert

Judge: “Mr ICE agent please arrest that man!”


37 posted on 01/02/2018 10:24:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Thanks.

Are there names and addresses?


38 posted on 01/02/2018 10:25:00 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: COBOL2Java

The thought of a contractor or homeowner hiring an illegal alien and then complaining about the quality of the work is both comical and pathetic.


39 posted on 01/02/2018 10:25:23 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: ifinnegan

The story cited in the article involves a lawsuit against the contractor, so I assume there’s a defendant who has actually been named.


40 posted on 01/02/2018 10:27:33 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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