Some NC migrant farmworkers face foul housing, low pay and forced travel, lawsuits say
Each year, some 15,000 H-2A visa holders come to North Carolina to work temporarily. Some have filed federal lawsuits alleging abuse.
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Each year, some 15,000 H-2A visa holders come to North Carolina to work temporarily. Some have filed federal lawsuits alleging abuse.
A pair of migrant workers have sued a west Michigan farm in federal court for alleged labor trafficking violations.
When Feliciano Velasco Rojas and Luis Guzman Rojas left their homes in Mexico and traveled to North Carolina for work in 2017, they did so to support their families and earn enough money to pay for …
A farm in Michigan is accused of trafficking foreign workers through the H-2A visa program, forcing them to pick blueberries for slave wages.
Two migrant workers from Mexico are suing a West Michigan blueberry farm for allegedly violating the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act through labor trafficking, involuntary servitude and forced labor.