San Jose restaurant owner accused of forcing waiter to house co-workers, threatening deportation

A former San Jose restaurant worker has filed a lawsuit accusing his previous boss of forcing him to house two fellow employees in his small one-bedroom apartment, threatening to get him deported and saying he would “destroy him and his family” for disobedience.

Afwan Mohammed claims his boss’s actions left him with panic attacks, dreams that someone was suffocating him, and “severe depression and anxiety” that put him in the hospital for a week under medication. He is still taking depression medication, the lawsuit alleges.

“I was just hopeless,” Mohammed, 23, said by phone, adding that while working at Karimi Restaurant he failed two courses at De Anza College, where

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