Lucas has always had a strict budget. A few years ago, he rented a room in a house he shared with four other people in Bridgeport. He paid for utilities, his phone bill and food, reserving a few hundred dollars to send to his mom, brothers and wife back in Nicaragua.
Early one September morning in 2019, a contractor picked up Lucas and took him to a job site where he did electrical and painting work until 6 p.m. It never crossed Lucas’ mind that the man sitting in the driver’s seat that day would never pay him all he was owed for the work.
“Fifteen days passed, and he would only send texts like, ‘Give me time’ or ‘Tomorrow’ … Other times, he would read the messages and leave it at that. He wouldn’t respond. Then a month passed, and nothing. In that time I was asking him for the money, I was without a job,” said Lucas, who speaks Spanish.
Not getting paid was the last thing Lucas needed. He’s seeking political asylum, and a court case next year will determine whether he is able to remain in the Unites States, thousands of miles away from his home country. In Nicaragua, he was laid off from his job as an elementary school teacher and couldn’t get another job, despite his college degree.
Lucas’ real name is being withheld by CT Mirror due to the sensitive nature of his pending asylum case.
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