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Posted on 02/25/2026 9:21:51 AM PST by Libloather
(The Center Square) – Federal agents continue to pursue visa fraud and forced labor crimes across the U.S. perpetrated by Americans and noncitizens who exploited a border crisis and loopholes in a weak visa system, prosecutors argue.
The prosecutions come as Mexican smuggling operations at the northern border continue to be thwarted, The Center Square reported.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington announced this week 61 indictments against six people in the Tri-Cities and Yakima areas for extensive visa fraud, victim tampering, aggravated identity theft, mail and wire fraud, visa fraud and other charges. Two people who remain at large, Cesar Jamie Rebolledo Diaz and Socorro Ramos, were indicted on ten counts. Four others were indicted on 51 counts.
Rebolledo Diaz and Ramos, both living in Yakima, were charged with fraudulently obtaining 103 temporary H-2A visas through a federal agricultural program. They falsely claimed they worked for Marquez Farms LLC, in Wapato, Washington, in documents submitted to the U.S. departments of State, Labor and Citizenship and Immigration Services, authorities allege.
The scheme involved recruiting Mexican nationals to work at Marquez Farms, claiming they’d provide housing, food, paid travel, visas, and predictable work hours, authorities allege. Once the visas were approved, they picked up the Mexican nationals at the U.S.-Mexico border and transported them to eastern Washington using school buses with no air conditioning or water, according to the charges. The Mexicans were then forced to work without pay, little food or adequate housing facilities and instructed to remain silent when investigations began, according to the charges.
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Any implications for Marquez Farms LLC?
dems promoting slave labor
again
Sounds like slavery to me. Yes yes I know....the dims have always been pro slavery.
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