Five people were indicted in late May in a Georgia based human trafficking scheme that federal authorities say illegally brought dozens of Mexican workers to work on Wisconsin farms. The defendants, through two companies they operated, received U.S. department of labor approval to bring the Mexican nationals to the US to work on Georgia farms through a program that allows employers to hire seasonal foreign workers if they can't find domestic workers to cultivate and harvest crops. Thus the workers were in the country legally. But according to the indictment, the defendants illegally brought the employees to work on Wisconsin farms, gave them false IDs and took away their passport so they couldn't leave. (05:35–05:49)
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Asserts that defendants received U.S. Department of Labor approval to bring Mexican nationals to work on Georgia farms.
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