Deported immigrants return to demand back pay

Posted By: Carolyn Hileman* on May 31, 2007

Filed Under General Goofiness, Immigration

A handful of workers caught in an immigration sweep across California and 16 other states and forced from the country earlier this year are now stepping forward to claim back wages they say their former employer owes them. The raids netted 23 workers from Orange County who were asked to leave the country. At least four of them have reentered the United States illegally and have since written to the federal Department of Labor to claim back wages. “We didn’t come back for a gift,” said one of the Orange County workers, who like the others asked not to be identified because he feared deportation. “We came back for what we worked for. Independent of how we came into this country, we were working hard, and we just want to be paid for what we did.”

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