Western Iowa Tech Community College Faces 2nd Federal Lawsuit
News Highlights: Western Iowa Tech Community College Faces 2nd Federal Lawsuit
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – Western Iowa Tech Community College is facing a second federal lawsuit.
Nearly a dozen more students are in lawsuit against college for alleged forced labor and human trafficking.
In May 2019, Western Iowa Tech Community College started a J1 Visa program.
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According to the lawsuit, foreign exchange students could study and do an internship related to their field in which they would not work more than 32 hours a week.
The group of students claims they were victims of “labor smuggling,” and the school did not do what they were promised.
The lawsuit alleges students were lured to Iowa in 2019 under a work- and study- based visa exchange program only to push them into factory jobs that had no educational value.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Eleven students from Brazil and Chile have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a northwest Iowa community college, a recruitment company, a pet food manufacturer and a.
Two students from Chile and nine from Brazil, among them Carilyns Camus (left), have filed a federal lawsuit, accusing Western Iowa Tech Community College of human trafficking.
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