The New York Times, 12/2/2008
Fear, abuse, exploitation and crime are real-life concerns for the immigrant poor and working class, even in comfortable suburbs like Long Island’s. The death last month of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean killed in Patchogue by what the police say was a hate-inspired teenage mob, was one terrible example, but not the only one. The day before Mr. Lucero died, the New York State Labor Department ordered a cleaning company in Amityville, which is in the same county, to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages that the agency said the company had stolen from 170 workers.
Filed under: Migration and Migrants | Tagged: Immigrant Workers, Labor
