North Carolina Justice Center (2016)

Filed suit on behalf of migrant farmworkers not being paid properly by labor contractors who brought foreign workers to fill temporary agricultural jobs. The contractors did not properly report hours worked and required workers to pay the costs of their visas and transportation to the United States. 

The case was resolved and has helped to deter other labor contractors from using similar practices.  Gallegos Gallegos v. Becerra Enterprises 

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