Carel Hanekom arrived in Northern Iowa from South Africa in the summer of 2021 expecting that he’d drive a truck hauling grain and chicken manure on a farm.
Instead, he found himself assigned to weeks on the road transporting construction materials over hundreds of miles in Iowa as well as Nebraska and Minnesota—duties that fell outside of his temporary work visa for seasonal farmworkers.
The alleged fraud cost Hanekom $37,000 in lost wages, he alleged in a lawsuit against his employer and the labor contractor that hired him through the H-2A visa program. In petitions for temporary work visas, the ...
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