Immigration,
Criminal
Aug. 24, 2020
Labor contractor sentenced for selling US visas to Mexican farmworkers
The defendant was convicted of traveling to Mexico to recruit farmworkers and charging them up to $3,000 for H-2A visas, in addition to illegally agreeing to give visas to individuals already in the U.S. in exchange for fees as high as $4,000.
The owner of a labor contracting company that illegally charged Mexican farmworkers thousands of dollars for H-2A visas, which allows non-U.S. citizens to temporarily enter the country to do agricultural work, was sentenced Friday to a year in prison.
U.S District Judge Josephine L. Staton also ordered the company owner to pay $135,389 in restitution. The company is...
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