Workers March to Door of Ex-Employer, Demand Pay
Four undocumented workers who said they were cheated out of $1,600 in back pay by their former employer marched down a quiet suburban street to the man’s rented hilltop home in Granada Hills Thursday, demanding payment.
The men were joined by about 20 other immigrant workers in a demonstration outside Fernando Esquivia’s two-story home on Elnora Place. Many carried placards with the messages, “No More Abuse for Undocumented Workers,” and “We Are Not Animals. We are Human Beings. Exercise Social Justice for Undocumented Workers.”
The men, accompanied by reporters and representatives from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, knocked on the door of the home, but no one answered.
Esquivia, in a later interview, said that he did not owe the men any money.
“They’re liars,” Esquivia said. “If I owed them money, I would give it to them. I’m not guilty.”
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