Mexican returns to Rhode Island in quest for justice
Tagged: judge, Rhode IslandPosted on: September 27th, 2007“Edgar Velásquez, who sliced his face open with a chain saw last year while working for a Warwick tree service company, has waited a year in his remote Mexican village for the chance to return to this country and have his day in court.
Today, back in Rhode Island, he is going to court.
Velásquez, 22, was working for William J. Gorman Jr., owner of Billy G’s Tree Service, when the accident occurred on March 31, 2006. Though Velásquez was in the country illegally, state law allows an employee to pursue a workers’ compensation claim regardless of his or her immigration status, according to Chief Judge George E. Healey Jr. of the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court.”
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