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March 22, 2010 News

Stolen Paychecks 

Immigrant workers have done much of the post-Katrina rebuilding in New Orleans — but their legal powerlessness has left them vulnerable to wage theft.

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Many people depend on Santos Alvarado: his wife, their 5-month-old baby in New Orleans, and the couple's three other children living in his native Honduras. Alvarado has spent the last four years as a day laborer rebuilding homes destroyed in the…

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