A class action lawsuit has been filed in a Georgia federal court against a Georgia woman and a blueberry grower on behalf of immigrant farm workers. The plaintiffs say the defendants subjected them to forced work for little pay in abusive conditions.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against a Georgia woman and a blueberry grower on behalf of immigrant farm workers who allege the defendants subjected them to forced work for little pay in abusive conditions. It is the latest development in Operation Blooming Onion, one of the largest human trafficking cases ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
In 2021, two dozen defendants were indicted on federal conspiracy charges after a transnational, multiyear investigation into a human smuggling and labor trafficking operation that illegally imported Mexican and Central American workers into “brutal conditions” on South Georgia farms.
Source: topclassactions.com